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The Black Death in the continent

 

   Do you know why people call this disease as the Black Death? It's because it burns people until their death. Even though people found out the rodent was the main cause of infection, they couldn't find out the cure of it. This Black death often appears as materials of literature that describe miserable hopeless life of that day; The disease brought shadows of death over whole European country.

  The plague became fear itself since its first initiation killed 2.5million people in 1340s; The number of death was one third of people in Europe at that time. Except for the first initiation, the Black Death took millions of lives over and over again; Especially in Britain, 7 million people died only in 14th century and it didn't stop. In addition, in Asia's case, the death rate was near 90 percents of popularity in 1353

 

 

     The disease ruined not only people but also society. Under influence of the virus this period was quite depressed and drenched with pessimism all over the continent. People regarded that the Jew, homeless people was the cause of the disease, in this reason they exercised violence onto them and even slaughtered poor people. In 14th century, In 1348, many village of the Jews was destroyed, genocide occurs 350 times at that time. Nobody couldn't think catching the rats is the solution.

    

     After few year, people started to believe superstition, and the statue of cleric fell down. People thought they should relieve their guilt, so they made injury themselves. People couldn't find clue any of it, so the nations banned import stuff from abroad. From this, the big countries like England and German faced inflation.

 

 

     The Black Death was everywhere. In Europe, Asia, central Asia and even North Africa. Nothing have broken death rate record after the plague in the history until now. At that time people reckoned the virus as judgement of god, so there were a famous novel that contained those substance; Foul Forrest in 1656. Someone might say that we don't need to worry about pest because we have advanced medical system. However experts anticipated the terrorist can use the virus in their work, therefore I guess human race is not free from the Black Death yet.