April+26th+Assignment

your assignment for today... Analyzing the effects of the Black Death on Europe 1. What two forms do the plague come in? 2. How did Men and Women react to the plague? 3. Why did people dismissed the notion that the Plague was carried by rats and fleas? 4. How did religion play a part in dealing with the Plague? Give a number of answers. 5. Describe the Flagellant movement.
 * Activity 1**: [|Background to the Plague.] As you read, answer the following questions.

**Activity 2. Mapping the Black Death**
In October of 1347, in Messina, Italy, on the island of Sicily, the plague first arrived in Europe. [|first hand accounts] will give you a first hand account. Also, look at the [|Map]. This is an interactive map that will ask you to manipulate the map to answer certain questions. Write down the: 1. rate at which the plague spread; 2. rapidity of the progress of the disease in individuals; 3. high mortality rate in the wake of the disease.

The immediate effects of the plague were devastating. As you read accounts answer the following questions in complete sentences. Use specific examples.
 * Activity 3 The Immediate Effects of the Black Death**
 * 1) How virulent was the plague? Did most people who got the plague survive or succumb?
 * 2) Was recovery from the plague even possible?
 * 3) Which particular groups (priests, doctors, merchants, urban versus rural population, for example) or classes of people (working class, craftsmen, ruling class, for example), if any, were affected by the plague or was it an indiscriminate killer?

Read the first six paragraphs of the analysis [|In the Wake of the Black Death]  (stopping after the sentence, "Everywhere their rents were in steady decline after the plague." at the end of paragraph six.) 1. What were the broader effects of the plague? First hand accounts
 * Activity 4**. Broader effects of the Plague
 * [|Baccacio: The Onset of the Black Death][|Boccaccio: The Onset of the Black Death] (Boccaccio may not have witnessed the plague firsthand in Florence, but his father was a health official.)
 * [|Jean de Venette on the Progress of the Black Death] read starting with the words, "Some said that this pestilence…" (third paragraph)
 * map: use the one on Google Classroom.
 * [|How Many Of The Dead Died Because Of The Mortality Of The Year Of Christ 1348], (The count may be exaggerated; modern demographic studies estimate the population of Florence in 1300 at 120,000 and by 1427 the number of people counted had fallen to around 37,000. However accurate the estimates are, it is undeniable that Florence suffered a huge, swift population loss.)
 * Read the first half of the secondary account, [|The Black Death Population Loss](stopping at the words "nor room to bury them." at the end of paragraph seven)