Secrets of the Black Death Video
 
The Black Death pandemic swept across Europe in the mid-14th century killing about half the population. It was caused by a bacterium 
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The Black Death - The Oriental Flea 
The Black Death was one of the worst natural disasters in history. In 1347 A.D., a great plague swept over Europe,  ravaged  cities causing  widespread  hysteria  and death. Read how the plague was transmitted, the effects in Europe and more... 
insecta-inspecta.com/fleas/bdeath/index... Bubonic Plague - Black Death 
Coming out of the East, the Black Death reached the shores of Italy in the spring of 1348 unleashing a rampage of death across Europe unprecedented in recorded history 
eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm How the Black Death Worked 
Article on the causes of the Black Death, effects and.. 
howstuffworks.com/historical-events/bla... The Black Death 
You will find 23 pages of information on the Black Death. No pictures. 
medicinenet.com/plague/article.htm Boccaccio's The Decameron 
The following excerpt is taken from Boccaccio's The Decameron. It is a detailed description of life in the middle ages, specifically the effects of the Black Death or Bubonic Plague. 
themiddleages.net/life/decameron.html Spreading of the Black Death 
Hundreds of thousands of people - men. women and children - are dying in every country in Europe, struck down by an epidemic of an apparently incurable plague which the healthy and afflicted alike call the Black Death 
themiddleages.net/life/blackdeath.html Black Death 
The Black Death was 'a squalid disease that killed within a week' and a national trauma that utterly transformed Britain. 
bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/b... Black Death: The Effect of the Plague 
The plague's devastating impact on the rural communities 
bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/p... The Black Death: Bubonic Plague 
In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people 
themiddleages.net/plague.html HISTORY OF THE BLACK DEATH 
In 1346 an unusually virulent strain of plague inflicts eastern Asia and China. It seems to have elements both of bubonic plague (carried by fleas, particularly those which live on rats) and of the pneumonic variety, in which the plague bacilli are spread on the breath of infected victims.. 
medievalsources.co.uk/blackdeath.htm Black Death: Political and Social Changes 
The Black Death had a devastating impact on local communities, and the class of survivors created a country of higher wages and peasants with a determined sense of their own worth 
bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/b... CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) 
The Centers for Disease Control and Preventon 
cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/index.htm The Black Death 
From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between one third and one half of the population dead. This collection of sources traces through contemporary writings the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349 
medievalsources.co.uk/blackdeath.htm Black Death 
School created page on the Black Death. 
twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaiss... TED Cast Study BUBONIC 
The Role of Trade in Transmitting the Black Death 
www1.american.edu/TED/bubonic.htm 
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