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﻿﻿ Bubonic plague Consequences  When the Bubonic plague, also known as The Black Plague, reached Europe where it had devastating effects, nearly every city and all houses were affected and every family lost loved ones. In the end this took out 2/3 of Europe's population. It affected everything, from art to the Economy.  What the Black plague looked like: The Black Plague would kill anybody who got in its path. It wiped out 2/3 of Europe's population. It arrived to Europe from Asia through the port cit y in 1347. It traveled by flees on rats that would make their way onto ships. The sailors were to afraid to do anything about the rats because they didn't want to catch the illness by touching them.  [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death__]  Acral Necrosis is Discoloration of skin and tissue, yercinia pestis affected animals and people, and was a rod shaped bacteria. The yercinia is the black plague. It would turn the affected areas of skin into a red circle. Also, peoples tongues would turn black. It would also cause head aches, fevers and/or chills. It only took 2-3 days for a person to die. When a person did die they would put them on the front doors of their house for the burial people to pick up. They didn't have enough graves for all the bodies, this meant they had to do mass burials. They would also burn them. This is where the childhood song "Ring Around the Rosy" came from. The people would carry pockets full of posie's because they thought they would protect them from getting ill. And the "we all fall down" part is about dying and burning at mass burials. [|__http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/images/3581-tn.jpg__] Economic affects: The price of food went up because many farmers had either died or became skilled merchants. The woman who survived benefited from the plague because they needed people to fill in jobs and the woman could then work. Also, many rich people moved out to the the more rural areas to try and avoid the plague. Art Effects:   The art started to have skeletons. Lots of art had to do with death. [|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death__] Religious Effects: Many people lost faith in the church. They originally saw it as if God was punishing them for doing something bad. Some people even became flagellant. These where people who would whip themselves because they thought God was punishing them. Many people also turned to spells and charms to try and cure themselves. Social Effects: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They also stared to blame the Jews. They blamed them because they were an easy target; they said that they poisoned the wells and spread the diseases.The church said that because the Jews didnt believe in Christianity that they where going to go to hell, and there for they where outcasts. <span style="color: #24a4db; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Political effects: Because many of death of many nobleman and vassals this opened doors for new kings to take over.The chance of dieing was so great that people would abandon the legislative bodies.Even the 100 year war was postponed because of so many solders dying.