OBJ: SW explain how the Black Death affected Europe WU: How would you react if 1/3

to ½ of the people living in your community suddenly started to die from an illness that no one knew how to cure?

The Black Death Hits Europe

What Was the Black Death?The “Black Death” was the

name given to the Bubonic Plague that struck Europe near the end of the Middle Ages

How did people get the disease?The “Black Death” was transmitted by

fleas that were carried on ratsBecause European cities did not have

good sanitation systems, the rats were all around in cities where ever trash and debris allowed them to thrive.

The fleas were then able to transfer to human hosts and infect them.

Certain strains of the disease were infectious, so once humans got it, they could give it to other humans.

How Did the “Black Death” Get to Europe?Genoese merchants sent their ships to

the Crimea to trade with the merchants on the Silk Road

Rats carrying the fleas were able to get on board the ships there.

By the time the ships got back to the City of Genoa in Italy, the crew of the ship had been infected. The members of the crew then infected the rest of the city.

From there it spread throughout Europe.

The Victims

A Nursery Rhyme“Ring around the rosie, A pocketful of posies.Ashes, ashes,We all fall down!”

What is this children’s nursery rhyme depicting?

City Scenes During the Black Death

Who Will Tend for the Sick?

Funerals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs

Disposing of the Dead

Death Comes For Me: What Occupations/Classes are affected?

Who is death Coming For?

How the Black Death Influenced Art

Depiction of the Death March

The Black Death in Art: The Dance of Death

What do you think it was like to live during a time when so many were dying in horrible ways so frequently?

What must that have done to the population that survived?