The Black death(Extra credit video)

The black death or the black plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, killing an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1348–50. The Black Death is thought to have originated in the plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road.
 The plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century. No medical knowledge existed in medieval England to cope with the disease.

The Black Death had a huge impact on society. Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease. Harvests would not have been brought in as the manpower did not exist. Animals would have been lost as the people in a village would not have been around to tend them.

Those who survived the Black Death believed that there was something special about them, the believed that a God had protected them.