during the elizabethan era, how did the people die besides from the Bubonic Plague?

Question

i want to know how people died besides dying from the black death and the Bubonic plague!

Answer 1

Many Many ways

People were murdered
People caught many other diseases such as influenza, polio, smallpox.....etc

One of the differences between the 20th/21st centuries and the Elizabethan area is that people are healthier, we know more about our bodies and our environment and what can harm us.

In the Elizabethan era, nobody knew about microbes (Antony Van Leeuwenhoek came much later) so that the cleanliness of food, people, what they came in contact with was nowhere near as clean as we are today. As a result, a lot of people died of diseases that we take for granted such as the flu.

Also, people were murdered. The economy was very different than it is today. It was common for a farmer to murder a neighbouring farmer for land. The judicial system was different as well, it was common for people to follow the eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life principal rather than go through the courts.

Finally, housing was much different in those days then it is today. There was no central air to cool the summers and no central furnace to keep warm in the winters, so the annual wear and tear on the body caught up with people at a younger age than happens today.

Answer 2

They were more likely to die from diseases that we can cure now (there were no antibiotics back then). There were a number of epidemics that swept through Europe.

The link below is for a book that might interest you. It coves the century before Elizabeth came to power -- but is on British Epidemics.

Answer 3

Natural causes like old age?

Answer 4

famines have been around as long as mankind so I'm sure some died of starvation.