What sickness caused the death of almost a fourth of Europe's population during the 1300s???

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Answer 1

Bubonic Plague

Answer 2

Bubonic Plague Caused by the Fleas on Rats that came on Ships into Europe . First into Italy and then Gradually all of Europe. The Mongols that Attacked the Venetian Settlement on the Shore on the Black Sea Coast Threw Infected Bodies of Soldiers with Plague over the Fortifications into the venetians causing Sickness and Death this is the first time it was Recorded by Europeans. It was a form of early Biological Warfare.

Answer 3

A couple of things started looking grim, but the "Black Death" was the big mamma-jamma that did most of the damage. It seems that the area was plagued (no pun intended ;) with hardships before that, then this came in as the final coffin nail for a lot of folks.

"Apparently, the climate in the High Middle Ages was good, thus making possible that period's prosperity. However, in the 1300's the climate turned colder and wetter than usual, resulting in floods and early frosts. Sources spoke of great famines in 1316 and 1317 and of reports that the Baltic Sea froze over in 1303 and 1316. The wetter and colder climate along with the more intense competition made Western Europe especially susceptible to the worst catastrophe it was to suffer in the Middle Ages: the Black Death."

Answer 4

Bubonic Plague

Answer 5

Bubonic plague is correct, but unlike some above wrote, it can be spread by rat's fleas, the rats themselves (rats can bite too) and humans.There are two types of the Black Plague :septicemic and pneumonic, the latter one can be transferred by coughing or sneezing.Septicemic plague can always turn into the pneumonic plague, which is more dangerous.

Kobaincito : precise numbers on how many died do not exist.Assumptions are based on municipal or church records, which usually only exist for bigger cities, not smaller villages, where the majority of people in middle ages lived.Contemporary sources usually exaggerated on the death numbers to illustrate the horror of the plague.

Answer 6

Bubonic Plague

Answer 7

1. It is a third to two thirds, not a fourth of the population who died in the worst wave of the plague around the 14th c. (wikipedia says 1340 AD).

2. The Bubonic plague is not extinct and there have been outbreaks as late as the 18th c.

Answer 8

The black death (also known as the Black Plague and the Bubonic Plague). It was spread by the female flees on the rats, not the rats themselves. The bubonic plague has been practically wiped out, but if you're traveling to India, better get a immunization shot.

Answer 9

Black Death

A pandemic of plague, probably both bubonic and pneumonic, the first onset of which ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time.

Answer 10

Bubonic Plague, also known as Black Plague and Black Death.

That's actually where "Ring around the Roses" comes from - its a reference to the Plague, and a song that children sang at that time.