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=//__The Black Death__// = By: Waddy The Black Death was a very deadly sickness in the Middle Ages. It was the end of the Middle Ages when people got ill and started to die. This time period lasted for 50 years.

This terrifying period started in Asia in 1340. The rats got on ships from Asia and went out to the port when the ships got to the port in Europe. The disease spread from Asia to Africa to Europe. In the Middle Ages at that time they threw garbage on the streets. People were a little dirty at that time: they didn’t take baths and didn’t brush their teeth which attracted rats.

If you got the disease you would first get red ringed shaped circles with dark center spots on your arm and neck. Second, you would get high fevers. Third, you would be more ill and ill the longer you have the disease. At last you would die. You might be wondering if there were doctors at those times. There were doctors but they didn’t have the cure.

The Black Death did a lot of effect to the world’s population. Within two years the plague killed 25 million people and in ten years it killed 1/3 of Europe. People were sick everywhere. Whole families wiped out. Whole villages wiped out. There were so many people dead that the sky was filled with ashes as people burned houses filled with graves of people. Villages were filled with dead.

People believed that it was god’s punishment for being wicked. If you are being bad you will get the plague and die. The people tried to protect themselves by closing their doors and carried flowers to make the smell of the dead people go away. Their ideas didn’t work and more people keep on dieing.

The plague lasted for 50 hundred years. It killed 2/3 of the world’s population. The strong survived but the weak died and the plague ended.

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