Ia adalah satu wabak dahsyat yang menyerang Eropah antara tahun 1347 hingga1350. 20 Juta rakyat Eropah meninggal dan jumlah itu merupakan 30 peratus daripada keseluruhan warga Eropah. Wabak ini menyerang kota-kota di mana kawalan percampuran amat sukar.
Wabak ini bermula pada tahun 1347 apabila ada 10 buah kapal daripada Laut Hitam berlabuh di pelabuhan Messina, Secily. Anak-anak kapal yang turun daripada kapal tersebut telah membaw wabak dan kebanyakan mereka mati. Yang hidup disuntik dengan dos.
Symptoms of the Black Death included fever, chills, vomiting, diarrhea, terrible aches and pains – and then death. Victims could go to bed feeling healthy and be dead by morning.
Understandably terrified about the mysterious disease, some people of the Middle Ages believed the plague was a divine punishment for sin. To obtain forgiveness, some people became “flagellants,” traveling Europe to put on public displays of penance that could include whipping and beating one another. Others turned on their neighbors, purging people they believed to be heretics. Thousands of Jews were murdered between 1348 and 1349, while others fled to less populated areas of Eastern Europe.
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