2007-12-03 07:49:01 · 20 answers · asked by hispanicgeneral 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I don't know if there is any truth to it, but I like the story that blames Christians for killing cats. Apparently, cats are demonic because of the noises they make during sex. Since they were demonic, they were exterminated. Cats eat the rats that spread the plague. No cats means more rats, means more plague.
The book _Poisons_ toys around with the idea that the plague was actually food poisoning caused by diseased grain. You should look up ergot poisoning, too.
2007-12-03 07:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by The J Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since it killed about a third of the population, in England at least, it created a labor shoratage that made workers more aware of their value and led to the Peasants' Revolt thirty+ years later. Some priests fled their plague-infected parishes, leaving their parishioners disillusioned. Others stayed to minister to their flocks, caught the plague, and died. Either way, the people began to see that they could get along fairly well without the Church as they had known it, and the seeds of the Reformation were planted. Both these effects played a role in the end of the Middle Ages.
2007-12-03 08:01:11 · answer #2 · answered by aida 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The death of a quarter of the population of Europe in a two year period comes to mind. One out of every four people died as the result of the bubonic plague. I'd call that a major event.
2007-12-03 07:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A neat story I heard:
The biggest event that went medically unnoticed was when the Pope was exposed to it. He sat inside a fire circle for a night and did not catch the plague. The reason he didn't catch it was because the fire kept out the rats and the fleas which transmitted the bacterium.
2007-12-03 07:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by Chantal G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The biggest EVENT? I don't know. The biggest PROBLEM that existed was the simple fact that people didn't know about germs or cleanliness and that caused it to be so wide spread and deadly is the simple fact that people didn't know about clealiness being so important and germs. SO, flees from rats bit people and they, too, became ill. The few "Healthy" people couldn't get time to bury or burn the dead. It was pretty nasty. PS: I bet you didn't know that's where the rhyme "Ring around the Rosy" came from. The plague caused a red sore that would develope a ring around it. People put posies in their pockets to hold to their noses when it smelled too bad to tolerate, ashes to ashes refers to all the fires from burning the dead and finally we all fall down is, obviously, dying.
2007-12-03 08:04:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-13 09:57:36 · answer #6 · answered by dhrampla 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to prove that the Nazis didn't invent antisemitism:
In the 15th century, many jews in Basel and Zurich were accused of poisoning the water wells, which people believed caused the plague. Many of them were burned alive in their houses or they were chained together and thrown in the Rhine.
2007-12-03 08:20:23 · answer #7 · answered by pipo2981 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The biggest event caused by the black death was the effect on the population of europe especailly effecting the church, see the link for details it helped me with coursework a little while ago...
2007-12-03 07:54:53 · answer #8 · answered by eudilyte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
. larger communities with no sanitation & contaminated water.
This combined with poor diet which mean a poor immune system and the migration of peoples.
A similar out break occurred in America and Europe at the out set of the first world war killing millions. This was the flu but the same circumstances prevailed
2007-12-03 07:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trade routes enabled the plague to become "mobile".
2007-12-03 07:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by Gloria da beautifulest 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋