Notes on the Black Death

Black Death

• also known as Bubonic Plague
• occurred in the 1300s, the Gothic period
• no one though the disease would strike Europe
• The Prince came up with a plan - an effective form of warfare
• He ordered his troops to load catapults with dead bodies
• They will catapult the plague bodies into the city.
• The ones who could escape set sail for Italy.

• The rats hid in the ships headed for the Mediterranean.
• Within a month, the Black Death had spread throughout Sicily.
• The people thought they were witnessing the end of the world.
• It was diagnosed that there were two types of plagues. One was more infectious than the other.
• The rich people fled from the plague.
• 1/3 of European society dies - 1348-1350