what is the worst year of the black death?

Question

There was some year during the black death that was really bad

Answer 1

It was the period from 1347 to 1349. The Black Death, began with a minor outbreak of bubonic plague, medical term Yersinia Pestis, which started in the Gobi Dessert. It was transmitted throughout China and reached Europe when a Kipchak army, besieging a Crimean trading post, catapulted plague-infested corpses over the city walls. Plague spread throughout Europe, carried by fleas in the fur of rats, and eventually reached the Dorset coast on 24th June 1348.

Answer 2

I'm not sure of a "worst year" of the Black Death but I do know that it came in "waves." It didn't just come to Europe in the 14th century and leave. It came a few other times after that; sometimes during the 16th century.

In any case, it was pretty bad because the science of medicine was almost non-existent. The germ theory didn't exist, either. No one knew that the disease was spread by bacteria. They felt that it was spread by bad smells so people wore really weird masks filled with incense to ward off the disease. Not surprisingly (to us, anyway) it didn't work. Also factor in poor sanitation, too. People would dump their chamber pots out of windows and onto streets (chamber pot = Medieval toilet).

The only thing that really worked for Medieval Europe was the act of quarantine. They would separate the sick from the healthy by boarding up houses (sometimes boarding up the healthy by mistake).

The disease was spread through trade routes with Asia (that's where the disease originated). Fleas infected with the bacteria bite on rats, thus infecting them. The tainted rats then eat the food on trade ships or in homes. People then eat the food that the rats ate...and so forth. One sign that the plague was coming wasn't a huge mass of dead people. It would be a huge mass of dead rats (the disease killed them, too).

The fleas would also be affected; the bacteria would clog their stomachs and they would try to continually bite and suck blood out of rats, mice, or any other animal but then they wouldn't be able to keep it down, thus starving to death.

According to a documentary on the plague, the disease would not discriminate against social class; the upper class got it, the middle class got it, and the poor people got it, despite the fact that some rich folks would flee to the countryside to get away from the disease-ridden city.

In the aftermath of the Black Death, approximately one-fourth to one-third of the population of Europe was decimated. That may not seem like a lot of people but consider that Europe wasn't as widely populated as it is today. Because of the plague, the economy of certain European nations and principalities suffered (the plague wiped out a lot of the workforce).

Although there is no threat from the disease, it doesn't mean that it cannot pop up again. There are still victims of the disease (mainly in 3rd world nations where modern medicine is scarce). Still, modern medicine does have various treatments for this illness. Type it in Wikipedia and that should help you out.

Answer 3

The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 to 30 million deaths in Europe alone. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe's population.The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the 1700s. During this period, more than 100 plague epidemics swept across Europe. On its return in 1603, the plague killed 38,000 Londoners.

Answer 4

I don't know of a specific year that was worse than any other, but I do know that the plague made its widest spread during the year 1348. Take a look at the site below....it gives a good "map" of the spread of the Black Death.

Answer 5

one of the worst years was 1347 when the deaths were increasing and about 1348 the deaths came to like a lull...im not that sure if this is right but i was reading something in my text about this ...good luck