College Board Themes
1. Interactions Between Humans and the Environment
The migration of the nomads and trade spread the bubonic disease to many different places, which led to epidemics to different parts of the eastern hemisphere.
2. State Building, Expansion & Conflict
Workers of the time in western Europe asked the political leaders for higher wages, but the government responded by freezing wages and forbidding workers to leave their homes. This lead to a rebellion of the workers against the political leaders.
The migration of the nomads and trade spread the bubonic disease to many different places, which led to epidemics to different parts of the eastern hemisphere.
2. State Building, Expansion & Conflict
Workers of the time in western Europe asked the political leaders for higher wages, but the government responded by freezing wages and forbidding workers to leave their homes. This lead to a rebellion of the workers against the political leaders.
Comparisons
1. In the post classical time period many countries had different reasons to fall of its empire, and disease was one of them. For example in Rome the smallpox was a factor for the fall of the empire because it caused problems in the social and economic areas as well as population.
2. Similar to other diseases in the post classical era, such as malaria, chicken pox, the flu, and etc., the disease had a great affect on the population of the country, like the Han dynasty who trouble with the measles.
2. Similar to other diseases in the post classical era, such as malaria, chicken pox, the flu, and etc., the disease had a great affect on the population of the country, like the Han dynasty who trouble with the measles.
BEGINNING
- Spread from the Yunnan region of southwestern China
- Infects rodents and fleas transmit the pathogen from one rodent to another
- If rodent population declines, then the fleas seek other hosts which lead human victims
- Early 14th century, Mongol military campaigns helped plague spread from Yunnan to China's interior: an epidemic of 1331 reportedly killed 90% of the population if Hebei province
- During the 1350s epidemics broke out in widely scattered regions of China
This picture depicts the many effects of the plague, and what
people had to go through.
people had to go through.
Spread of Plague
What The Plague did
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This map shows the movement of the outbreak of the bubonic plague over time.
This is a picture of a doctor treating (blood-letting) his patients who have caught the bubonic plague.
This is a picture of people fleeing the disease and people who have already caught the disease.
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Population Decline
- It took a century and more to begin recovery from the demographic consequences of the epidemic disease
- In 1300 China's population, already reduced by the Mongols, was at 85 million
- In 1400, after about 70 years of epidemic plague, Chinese numbers amounted to only 75 million
- Once recovery started population grew to 100 million
- In 1300 Europe's population was at 79 million, and then it dropped almost 25% to 60 million in 1400
- Demographic recovery was underway in 1500 and European population climbed to 81 million
- Islamic societies took much longer to recovery than Europe and China
This video goes over the population decline of China and Europe. (My app. Pic collages into a video)
Social and Economic Effects
- Peasants and laborers, artisans and craftsmen, merchants and bakers, priests and nuns, rulers and bureaucrats all suffered through the plague
- Labor shortages
- In western Europe workers demanded higher wages and man left their homes in search of better working conditions
- Political authorities responded by freezing wages and forbidding workers to leave their homes
- Resulted in a series of rebellions
- By the 17th century the epidemic started to slow down
- Since the 1940s antibiotic drugs have bright the disease mostly under control among human populations, but not rodent populations
This video goes over the disease of bubonic.