Why was Black Death's impact so great?

Question

Black Death is that disease that happened in Europe, in the Middle Ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

Answer 1

Cause it felt like it! Gosh!

Answer 2

The Black Death, otherwise known as the Black Plague, was so great because it wiped out about 1/3 of the population of Europe, affecting both the rich and the poor. Further, the disease was not centralized in any one country or region, ergo it affected people and nations equally (Though in places like Nuremberg in Germany the affect was little or non existant...but this is an anomaly)

Further, the Black Plague made people whose entire lives were built on work and their faith in God question that faith, and this would also be a factor in the rise of the Renaissance thinkers and the more humanistic view of Renaissance philosophy.

Answer 3

Plagues were common and still are in some parts of the world. This one killed off 1/3 of the European population. Commerce and travel probably cuased this. My guess is the fleas got on the horses and people took those horses to other parts of Europe. Exported cattle, goats and sheep probably also contributed to the spread. Birds get fleas too.

Answer 4

Because it wiped out 1/3 of Europe's population and gave way to better hygiene.

Answer 5

Which impact? 1.Medical: It was a new virulent form that people had no resistence to. 2. Social: about 25% to 30% of the entire population died which opened new social fields to the survivors. 3: Economic: the surviving workers could (and did) demand more money for their work.

Answer 6

As per your article, imagine that one of every three people you see got sick and died. Europe lost one third of everyone.
There were not so many people in the world at that time anyway, so it left entire villages and regions empty. Let's hope that we're immune.

Answer 7

dense populations with no immunity to it is my guess