Date: Friday March 7

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Date FridayMarch 7
TSWBAT explain the life in Medieval Towns,
describe the black plague and the impact on the
people and their beliefs
Warm up Who knows/ heard of Sars? See next
slide Activity PPT and notes watch a video
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SARS
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

• The death rate from SARS was 9 to 12 of those
  diagnosed. In people over age 65, the death rate
  was higher than 50. The illness was milder in
  younger patients.
• Many more people became sick enough to need
  breathing assistance. And even more people had to
  go to hospital intensive care units

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LIFE IN THE MEDIEVAL TOWNS
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TOWNS

• 9 OUT OF 10 TOWNS HAD LESS THAN 200O PEOPLE
• PARIS HAD 150,000 AND LONDON HAD 40,000 PEOPLE

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• LAND WAS SCARCE, SO THE HOMES WERE FIVE OR SIX
  STORIES HIGH
• NO POLICE, RAW SEWAGE, AND EPIDEMICS RAN RAMPANT

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DECLINE OF SERFDOM

• TOWNS OFFERED SERFS A CHANCE TO IMPROVE LIVES
• (FREEDOM)

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• COULD PAY FOR LAND WITH MONEY INSTEAD OF LABOR
• FENCED IN PASTURES ELIMINATED SHEPPARDS

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Black Death
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The Black Death was one of the worst natural
disasters in history. In 1347 A.D., a great
plague swept over Europe andcaused 
widespread hysteria and death. The primary
culprits in transmitting this disease were Rat
Fleas which were carried on the back of black
rats
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BLACK DEATH

• SPREAD WHEN FLEAS WERE INFECTED WITH BACTERIUM
  FROM RATS. THE FLEAS SPREAD IT TO HUMANS
• Symptoms
• Headache
• Chills
• Fever
• Exhaustion
• Within a day or two, swellings appeared.
• They were hard, painful, burning lumps on the
  neck, under the arms, on the inner thighs. Soon
  they turned black, split open, and began to ooze
  pus and blood. They may have grown to the size of
  an orange.

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How the Plague was spread

• 1. BUBONIC PLAGUE- PAINFUL SYMPTOMS AND HIGH
  FEVER (SPREAD BY FLEAS)
• 2. PNEUMONIC PLAGUE- SPREAD BY COUGHING AND
  SNEEZING. ALMOST ALWAYS FATAL!!!!!!!! ATTACKED
  THE LUNGS!!

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DEATHS

• 33 OF EUROPE DIED FROM BLACK DEATH
• SOME ESTIMATES HAVE GONE AS HIGH AS 45

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• 25 MILLION PEOPLE died (33)
• IT TOOK OVER 100 YEARS TO RECOVER FROM THESE
  LOSSES

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EUROPES RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC
INSTITUTIONS

• CHURCH LOST ITS POWER AND PRESTIGE BECAUSE
  PEOPLES FAITH WAS SHAKEN
• RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER CLASS WERE
  UNSTABLE BECAUSE OF THE SHORTAGE OF WORKERS
• THIS LED TO PEASANT REVOLTS

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Black plague video

• Black Plague, History Channel
• As you watch the video explain what the people
  believed the Plague really was and why it was
  happening.

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WHAT IF?

• How did the Plague affect the economy, culture,
  and the general mood of the European People?
• How did it effect the Church?