What were the lesson learnt from the black plague abd how did it shape the modern world??

Question

Any help please.....anything will help as long as it is fact

Thanks for the help and plenty of rudeness from the person below.

Answer 1

Lesson - that would still require centuries to learn - being clean has health value. Leaving garbage and waste in the streets of cities and towns encourages rats. Rats carry specific fleas. Those fleas carry Yersinia Pests - the bacteria that cause the bubonic plague also known as the "black Death" which affected Europe in waves after the first appearance in 1347-48 CE.

I see Wotan (and just about everyone else) types faster than I.

Facts. Between one quarter and one third of the people of Europe died in the first onslaught of the bubonic plague ~1348. When people finally began to reason this all out,
it was realized that overpopulation had reached the limit of the food supply - so a downturn in climate (noted in the early 1300s) - that decreased food crops - led to widespread malnutrition. That weakened the population to disease.
Crowded and filthy conditions allowed the rapid spread of the disease.
Lesson - Overpopulation and overcrowding are BAD - especially when food production cannot support the number of people. Africa is facing these problems now, but their population is growing faster than elsewhere on earth.
Result = epidemic disease and high mortality - - nature's way of adjusting the number of people if the people do not limit their own reproduction.

Answer 2

Death is an equal opportunity killer. Though the poor may suffer more and endure harsher treatment in the end Death reigns supreme. Different lessons were learned in different places. In England the Plague created a labor shortage and helped to destroy Fedualism freeing the serfs from bondage whereas in Russia the opposite happened, serfdom increased and the survivors were bonded to the soil to Mother Russia.

And in Russia the value of isolation was learned, that it was best for towns & villages to be insular, out of the way, suspicious of strangers, barring them entry.

In the rest of Europe the Plague was an equalizer purging population over growth, thinning the ranks of the Clergy & Nobility, clearing the way for others to rise to prominence and position. Superstitution & fear made the population even more dependent upon the Church and since the Catholic Church mostly made heroic efforts to feed & heal the sick and to bury the dead and many other tasks, the Black Plague was good for Church Public Relations and strengthen the bond between citizens & church.

Enough of my blathering would recomend the Thomas Costain Books, as well as Barbara Tuchman.
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Answer 3

At the time, I don't think there were any lessons learned by the Europeans. It was most often thought that witches, or punishment from God for whatever sin or sins someone was thought to have committed, were thought to be the cause.

Lessons from it were not gleaned until centuries later, after the concept of diseases being the cause of some illness became an accepted reality.

Wotan

Answer 4

Black Death Lesson

Answer 5

This website gives a long and very well detailed explaination:

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

Scroll down to Consequences and it mentions things such as:
Depopulation, Socio-economic effects, etc.

Answer 6

A good sewage system is critical, ice ages are bad, and don't live with rats...no matter how cute they are.

Answer 7

it helped lead to hygiene movements such as sanitation