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The Black Death, also known as the black plague, was a Bubonic disease that started in the Gobi desert in the 1340's. It has a Bacillus organism that's carried in the fleas stomach. It was carried around through trade routes and ended up all around Europe, Asia, and eventually ended in Russia around 1352. Some minor other occurences happened throughout history.

If you had the Plague, there were many signs or symptoms. Some of them included: high fevers, aching and vomiting of blood. Lymph nodes would swell, Blackish coloring. Also, the plague was almost un-curable. Almost everyone who got, died. It took at most 6 days to catch it, and 3 days to kill you after you caught it. It killed 2/3 of the worlds known population.

There was 2 types of the plague, septicemic which effects the blood and pneumonic which effects the lungs. They were both fatal, but the pneumatic was more deadly do to the fact that it spreads through the air. The air you were breathing was basically poison. You caught the plague easily by coming in contact with it; either by touching or breathing in the bacteria either from a rat or an infected individual.

The legends say that the Mongols catapulted infected bodies over a wall that blocked off an important European port city. It was the first act of biological warfare. Other ways it was spread was when the Geonese entered ports at Messina. Most the Messinians fled to Catania. In Milan, most people survived because they quarantined the sick, thus preventing the spread of it.

In this time, many people looked for a scapegoat. The Jews had filled this criteria since the begging of time. A group of people called Flagellants went arount cities and countryside punishing themselves in order to atone the worlds sins. While do this, they beat Jews to death. This was because most people thought that God was mad at them. Perhaps they did something to upset their savior? But Jews were not persecuted by the Catholic church, but by the fear and anger of the mid evil townsfolk.

The Black Death influenced many things, especially art. One of the most famous is the //Danse Macabre//. A series of disturbing paintings depicting the plague. Some films may have been made for it, but in not 100% sure. But what i am sure of is the fact that it impacts us now. It defiantly had a greater impact on the people when it was in effect.

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The Colombian Exchange was a widespread exchange of food, animals, slaves, and disease's between the eastern and western hemisphere. Christopher Colombus launched the large-scale contact between old world and new world.

The Coumbian Exchange affected almost every society on Earth. New diseases brought by Europeans, to which the indigenous peoples of the America s had no immunity, killed many cultures. Info for the pre-Columbian population in the Americas is uncertain, but estimates of its disease-induced population losses between 1500 and 1650 range between 50 and 90 percent.

On the other hand, the contact between the two areas circulated a wide variety of new food and animals which increased the population in both hemispheres. Explorers went back to Europe with maize, potatoes, and Tomatoes, which became very important crops in Eurasia by the 18th century. Europeans brought manioc and a peanut from Southeast Asia and West Africa where grown.



