Plague

The Revenge of Nature:
Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
1.How did the modality change globally in the fourteenth century?
1350-1850- trivial ice age
1300 Temperatures started to drop (up until then it had been at its warmest)
Shipping was effect (trade)
Greenland, Norway, Finland became depopulated
Lower global rainfall
Decrease agriculture (famine)
Mostly Eurasia & N. Africa

1320s-1340s era of Plagues (Eurasia/N.Africa)
Black Death
early cases in Unan Province, China
from May-Sept ppl died by the hundreds
affected teeming & poor alike
Bubonic Plague
flea & rat bite, contact with sick
Typhis Influenza
Smallpox
all occurred afterwards we lived close to domesticated animals

Islam
Blamed Sin for the plague (God angry)
Flagellants- fudge themselves to be close to god
Had herbal & natural remedies simply nigh effective was quarantine
Moral destroyed
Jew, Gypsies, Muslims were blamed

Women
Husbands died & left land to wives
became protected from disease (survivors)
Women emerged with property
Peasants
Obligated to their lords
So many peasants died (shortage), survivors charged more for their labor
frugal benefit

Plagues effected...




China
Massive population loss
Mongol Dynasty fell by 1368 (loss polity of heaven)
Rise of rebels- Ming Dynasty took over
Aristocracy under pressure (family members died
Islam- Iran
Mongols fell in 1342
Japan
No Mongol rule and No plague
Civil Wars
Ashikaga totalitarianism emerged (had more power than emperor)
Zen Buddhism
based on discipline, self-scarifice
westbound Africa
Mali
Power from control of Gold mines

Diasters bcus of climate change, plague, societal disruption, involution slowed. Humans are a part of the ecological system. raw(a) groups moved in (Turks, Slavic kingdoms). Period benifited Western Monarchs-increased governmental advantage, Peasants-economic benefits-laid ground for middle class
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