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The Black Plague - Online Term Paper

The Black Plague

Mark Belianski
Doran/Curd: Block 3/4
The Black Death Essay
November 3[rd], 2014

How did the Black Plague affect feudalism and society in Florence during the 14[th] century?

The Black Plague was an epidemic that divested Europe. Scholars believe that the plagued moved from China and to the west along the Silk Road (Zigler 6). Since middle ages, Genoese and Catalan banks, had established trading ports throughout Europe, and around the Mediterranean Sea (Dauvred 42). Mongols seized Kaffa in 1346 and got infected by the Black Plague (Zigler 7). Fighting broke out between the Genoese and the Tartars of Kaffa and Tartars won (Bicak 99). Tartars that died in Plague were sent to Kaffa, ...

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the city, the Plague took the lives of men, women, children and animals. During the year of the lord 1348 there was a very great pestilence in the city and district of Florence (Streissguth 69). The plague had reached Florence and began its destruction of the city. When the Plague took to the houses no one remained. And it was not just men and women died, but even sentient animals died (Streissguth 70). The Plague was such a fury and so tempestuous that in houses in which it took holds of the previously healthy servants who took care of the ill died of the same illness (Streissguth 70). Servants were exposed to the plague and caught the illness and eventually died. Florence was surrounded by death, sorrow and panic as the plague progressed.
Florence's society continued to suffer from the Plague causing families to split and people fleeing to safety. Frightened people abandoned their houses and move on to a new town. Those in town fled to villages. Physicians could not be ...

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Added: 3/11/2015 01:23:31 PM
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Category: European History
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