WHAt this is
This is a website about how to avoid the plague and other facts about it |
The Black Death will kill over 1/3 of your population if you guys don't take my word as gospel. Its Europe in the 1300's you guys are very ignorant about stuff like this. It will be deadly and everyone will be afraid of catching it (duh, it kills you. Who would want to catch that?). This website will teach you about what the plague will be, how you simpletons will try to treat it, and how it will impact both your world and mine.
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Why would anyone need this Guide? |
Well, lets put it this way. Do you want to die along with 1/3 of Europe's population is one of the most biologically brutal ways ever? I didn't think so. You will need this survival guide to know where the plague comes from, how it spreads, how to look for signs of the plague, and a cure for it in case you somehow get infected. Although the only way you would be able to get infected is if you don't follow mt instructions exactly as I tell them to you.
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WHere did the black plague ORIGINATE? |
The Black Plague originated in China in the early 1330's and spread across Asia. It surfaced when an earthquake or a drought drove the bacteria out of its habitat of isolation and lead the plague into a deadly exodus to find a new home after hundreds of years of dormancy in the blood of rodents. That's how the plague started.
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How did the black plague enter western europe?(SUSPICIOUS RAT IS SUSPICIOUS)
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The Black Plague will first enter Western Europe when 12 Genoese trading ships dock in the Sicilian port of Messina. When the men arrive, people will go aboard to meet, them and welcome them, only to discover that most of them are going to be dead, and if they aren't dead they will be incredibly ill and in great pain, they will be close to death. They will have an incredible fever, they will not be able to keep food down, and they will be delirious from the pain this disease will cause them. But the thing that's going to be the strangest to you lot, will be black boils, covering their bodies from head to toe and oozing blood and puss. These ships will be sent away, unhelped, out of fear that others will to catch this sickness. While the exchange will be short, it will be just enough for the rodents on the ship, the same ones who made the sailors sick because of the plague in their blood, then biting the sailors causing sickness,, will have enough time to make it on land.
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what areas of western europe were most affected by the black plague and why? |
The plague most effected urban areas and, especially, port cities. This is because of all the trade. Rats, especially the black rat, which is also the rat that carried the plague, likes to live among humans. It is often called "the house rat" of "the ship rat" for that reason. The black rats will hitchhike from ship to ship and infect sailors along the way. Once in port, the rats would leave the ship into the port city and surrounding urban areas, while more rats boarded the ship. Then the trade ships would move the rats all around Europe and sometimes Asia and unknowingly infect people. The plague spread so quickly in urban areas and port cities because , while this plague is already highly contagious (even just touching someone who has it will get you it as well), the close living quarters didn't help. Coughing and sneezing will spread the plague. touching other people, dead of alive, will spread it. just about anything will spread it. While yes, people in rural areas did get the plague, they didn't get it as intense as people in the cities because they lived far apart and it was more difficult for the plague to spread between them. SO, i advise you to stay out of cities and go live on a farm or something until this is all over.
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