Notes 9/14/10

• The Plague
• From China and India to Turkey
• Infected bodies were used to keep enemies away; biological warfare
• 1315= Famine
• About 6 days from the rat to the symptoms on the person
• If the infection spread to the lungs, they died in less than a week
• The youngest, oldest, and poorest were the most susceptible, but every class followed
• 1348- London  had a population of 100,000
• In the first wave of plague, 300 died every day
• Bodies were pitchforked in to mass graves, instead of laid carefully facing east
• 14,000 perished in Dublin
• 1300 died in Farnam
• Workers could charge more for their services
• There were no more serfs, they could choose their conditions for labor
• It damaged the Church as well
• Transi Grave= the top layer was a statue of you as you were in life, the bottom was your skeleton
• Edward the 3rd and his son both died
• Edward's grandson became king, but his uncle made all the decisions
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