which city did the black plague sweep through killing thousands?
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Kiev, London, Rome, you name it.
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The Black Plague (Bubonic Plague) was spread by fleas, rats, and people infected with the plague.  There were many cities in germany that had indoor plumbing, sewar systems, and were extremely sanitary.  During this era in other parts of Europe it was common to have farm animals, and other domestic animals in ones house (this way no one could steal them at night), these animals had fleas and the flea bites spread the disease.  For the cities that did not have indoor plumbing, open sewars, or people just threw the pot out the window when it was full, this attracted the rats whose fleas continued to spread the plague.  Lastly, cleanliness was not observed as it is today, so people might take a bath once or twice a year, this too hindered them.  Lastly, many of those cities that weren't infected totally were probably in the northern reaches of Germany or in mountainous areas that were difficult to reach.  The freezing cold killed fleas and animals infected, it also helped to kill some of the plague, but not all.  Cities probably walled themselves off from outsiders to protect themselves from the plague and only allowed clean people to enter.\nRemember:\n "Ring around the rosy,\nPocket full of posy,\nAshes, Ashes,\nWe all fall down."
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the doctor was partially right, for some viruses. many diseases we get from mutations in bacteria or viruses, from animals, from food, from a new environment we aren't used to, etc.\n\np.s. Any expert can tell you exactly how to contract the bubonic plague (often called the black death, the black plague, the plague, etc.) that wiped out 1/4 of Europe in its time. People got it from fleas. It is often associated with rats because rats carry fleas, and therefore the plague. When the flea bit an infected person, and then someone else the other person got infected, as did anything else the flea bit. And with the poor sanitation a few hundred years ago, and their total lack of knowledge as to what caused it, it is no wonder the plague wiped out entire towns.
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Here's a big database of all that have been killed over there so far.\n\n\nAnswer your question?  Leave me the credit!   :-)
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Generally speaking, 'new' disease causing bacteria simply evolve from pre-existing bacteria.    Yersinia pestis (bacterium that causes Black Death) is thought to have originated from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.  The two bacteria are nearly identical genetically, but the latter does not cause Black Death.  It is important to realize that even the slightest genetic change in a bacterium can result in a completely different pathogenicity (as is the case with Y. pestis).   This makes it possible for a new diseases (or new variants of diseases) to appear quite suddenly.
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1228\nHolland: 100,000 people reputedly drowned by sea flood in Friesland.
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pittsburgh\n\nPittsburgh has more bridges than any city in the world
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Curing Black Plague?  Huh?  The French Revolution was in the 1780s, the Black Plague in the 1320s.  Why do some people feel qualified to answer questions who, apparently, have never opened a history book?\n\nAnyway, little developed if anything, apparently, other than a change in terminology with the revolutionaries trying for egalitarianism in everything.  If you want to call this "key" be my guest -- I'm sure the French think highly of it.\n\nThe real developments in medicine didn't occur until close to the end of the 19th century -- everything before that we would consider fairly barbaric.
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The Black Death led to cynicism toward religious officials who could not keep their promises of curing plague victims and banishing the disease. No one, the Church included, was able to cure or even explain the plague.
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And also consider the fact that the Roman Empire stretched over many countries die to their rise as a naval power at that time. All the way into Northern Germany and into Britain as far as Northumbria.
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Cataline. He led a rebellion against a Roman government that would not do what he told them to do. He failed, and his whole army was slaughtered. Legend says that they found Cataline's body, near none of his compatriots yet surrounded by his dead enemies, a mile closer to Rome than any of his dead men.\n\nMake no mistake, I am not into violence per se, but the sheer force of will of such a man is enviable.\n\nGood Luck!\nkeptcompany@yahoo.com
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Around 58,000 with 158,000 wounded
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Around 430 - 426 B.C., a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles. The balance of power shifted from Athens to Sparta, ending the Golden Age of Pericles that had marked Athenian dominance in the ancient world. Ancient historian Thucydides also contracted the disease, but he survived to write about the plague. His writings are the primary source on this outbreak. The cause of the plague has long been disputed, with modern academics and medical scientists considering epidemic typhus the most likely cause. However, a study in 2006 by Manolis Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens detected DNA sequences similar to those of the bacterium responsible for typhoid fever.[5] Other scientists have disputed the findings, citing serious methodologic flaws in the dental pulp-derived DNA study. In addition, as the disease is most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions, it is an unlikely cause of a widespread plague, emerging in Africa and moving into the Greek city states, as reported by Thucydides.\n\nIn 1860-1900, typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago averaged 65 per 100,000 people a year. The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid death rate was 174 per 100,000 persons.[2]\n\nIn 1897, Edward Almwroth Wright developed the effective vaccine.
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The armies of the Goths defeated the western Roman empire. The Ottoman Turks defeated the Byzantine empire. The Mongols defeated the Chinese empire.
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One theory of how it was virtually eradicated was the change in rat population.  The type of rats (I don't remember if it was brown or black) changed and they were more resistant to the disease.\n\nThe plague in London was stopped during the Great Fire of 1666 where fire killed off most of the flea infested rats, but unfortunately burned half of London.
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Several members of early Black Metal bands known as the Inner Circle where engaged in church burnings and grave desecrations.\n\nMembers of Mayhem and Emperor among others were either convicted of or admitted to arson of churches. \n\nRead the book "Lords of Chaos" for a more details overview
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http://idcs0100.lib.iup.edu/WestCivI/the8.htm\n\nhttp://www.rotten.com/library/history/plague/\n\nhttp://www.onlineessays.com/essays/history/his058.php