欧洲黑死病【英文】概要.ppt

Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Culprits The Famine of 1315-1317 By 1300 Europeans were farming almost all the land they could cultivate. A population crisis developed. Climate changes in Europe produced three years of crop failures between 1315-17 because of excessive rain. As many as 15% of the peasants in some English villages died. One consequence ofstarvation povertywas susceptibility todisease. 1347: Plague Reaches Constantinople! The Symptoms Bulbous Septicemic Form:almost 100% mortality rate. From the Toggenburg Bible, 1411 Lancing a Buboe The Disease Cy