Black Death

.vs.

Smallpox

Which one was more deadly?

Like everything, the Black Death also known as the bubonic plague had a origin. Which is Asia. More specifically, China, Syria, India and Persia.

The Black Death and the Smallpox were both harsh diseases/plagues that were roaming around during the middle ages.

The smallpox was a harder plague to discover where its origin was because, it started to breakout all over the world. But many believe that its origin was in India.

THE

SYMPTOMS

If you have the bubonic plague. The symptoms will be marked by buboes, blackboils, high fevers, vomiting and headaches.

SYMPTOMS

HOW DID IT SPREAD?

HOW DID IT SPREAD?

Smallpox can spread by contact with someone who has smallpox. Generally, the contact has to be face to face in order to get it to someone. It also can spread by bedding or clothes if it had contact with someone who had smallpox.

The symptoms of smallpox are sudden high fevers, feeling of unwellness, skin rash that turns into bumps filled with fluid, headache, abdominal pain and vomit.

The bubonic plague is known to spread through through a bite of an infected flea or rat. Fleas and rats were found anywhere including ships. The ships and trade routes like the silk road was one of the reasons why the plague was able to get all around the world.

During the time when the Yersinia Pestis virus (the virus that cause the bubonic plague) started spreading some people called the "scots" thought that all of this was a punishment for their actions on invading England and other places. So they thought that it was a punishment for their actions.

After the generation of colonists established themselves in the new world. Smallpox became as bad a problem for their children. As it was for the natives they were trying the exterminate. People tried coming out with vaccine and they also tried the quarantine method. Asia and Africans had already improved in smallpox. China had procedure smallpox, scabs ground into powder and blown up in someone’s nose. Variola was derived from the Latin word “spotted” or pimple. Religious people said that without disease as a whip no one would respect god.

Different views by people

HOW DID IT IMPACT HUMANS BACK THEN?

the drastic reduction of crops that were took care of from landworkers dying.

Killed 1/3 to 2/3 people in Europe 

societies started to change. This brought new fluidity to the hitherto rigid stratification of society.

reduce of wages or money rents in place of labour services in an effort to keep their tenants for the landowners.

less landworkers so low percent of land was cultivated

trade and war has occured

fast rate of mortality. The rate could vary from 30-75%

 Smallpox impacted all levels of past society including Monarch.

HOW DID IT IMPACT US HUMANS TODAY?

due to the smallpox now we know vaccines for the small pox and we are prepared for another outbreak (if it happens). Also there were many falls of empires which is a good thing because now we don’t live in a society with levels that differs us from each other as much as it did before small pox.

If there was no black death our society might have been different. There might have been levels of humans like peasants, knights and kings and queens. Medicines and education of viruses were made because of the black death.

CITATIONS

1. https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death

2.ms.patty information

3. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/smallpox/

4.https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/public+content/sa+health+internet/conditions/infectious+diseases/smallpox/smallpox+-+including+symptoms+treatment+and+prevention

5. https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/smallpox/fact_sheet

6. Newsela

7. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27726788/

8. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-45101091

9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1aULu6BqNs

10. https://www.livescience.com/7509-smallpox-changed-world.html