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The Black Death - Coggle Diagram
The Black Death
Reasons
There were harvest failures
People were war weakened
Ships carried it on trade routes
There were no treatment
Statute of Labourers
Poor people hated the law because it kept them poor
A law which meant you needed to pay a set wage for workers
1351
If people refused to work for the set wage they would be punished by prison
Causes
Poor Medical knowledge
Medieval doctors did not understand diseases
Limited ability to prevent or cure it
Symptoms
Swellings
Attacked the lungs
Infected blood
Consequences
People blamed the churches
There was a big shortage of workers
Poor people began to hate poverty even more
Deaths
Half of the population of Scotland died
3.2 million was the death toll for the British Isles and Ireland
20 million deaths in Europe
Cures
Beliefs
Drinking vinegar
Blood letting
No cure