bubonic plague

(noun)

Disease circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents. Without treatment, the bacterial infection kills about two thirds of infected humans within four days.

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Examples of bubonic plague in the following topics:

  • The Black Death

    • The Black Death was an infamous pandemic of bubonic plague and one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
    • In the Late Middle Ages (1340–1400) Europe experienced the most deadly disease outbreak in history when the Black Death, the infamous pandemic of bubonic plague, hit in 1347.
    • The most infamous symptom of bubonic plague is an infection of the lymph glands, which become swollen and painful and are known as buboes.
    • Buboes associated with the bubonic plague are commonly found in the armpits, groin, and neck region.
    • Plague brought an eventual end of serfdom in Western Europe.
  • Kingdom of Aksum

    • It is also possible that Ethiopia was affected by the Plague of Justinian around this time, a disease thought to be the first recorded instance of bubonic plague.
  • Portuguese Explorers

    • In the second half of the fourteenth century outbreaks of bubonic plague led to severe depopulation: the economy was extremely localized in a few towns, unemployment rose, and migration led to agricultural land abandonment.
  • Crises of the Roman Empire

    • The Crisis of the Third Century was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression.
    • The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, (CE 235–284) was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression.
    • Additionally, in 251, the Plague of Cyprian (possibly smallpox) broke out, causing large-scale death, possibly weakened the ability of the Empire to defend itself.
    • When Claudius died in 270 of the plague, Aurelian, who had commanded the cavalry at Naissus, succeeded him as the emperor and continued the restoration of the Empire.
  • Introduction to the Peloponnesian War

    • Their victory was short-lived, however, because in 430 BCE, an outbreak of plague hit Athens, ravaging the densely packed city and wiping out over 30,000 citizens, sailors, and soldiers, amounting to roughly one-third to two-thirds of the Athenian population.
    • As a result, Athenian manpower was drastically reduced, and due to widespread fears of plague, foreign mercenaries refused to hire themselves out to Athens.
    • Pericles and his sons perished as a result of plague, and in the aftermath, Athenians turned against Pericles’s defensive strategy in favor of a more aggressive one that would bring war directly to Sparta and its allies.
  • The Spanish Habsburgs

    • Faced with wars against England, France, and the Netherlands, the Spanish government found that neither the New World silver nor steadily increasing taxes were enough to cover their expenses, and went bankrupt again in 1596. furthermore, the great plague of 1596–1602 killed 600,000 to 700,000 people, or about 10% of the population.
    • Altogether more than 1,250,000 deaths resulted from the extreme incidence of plague in 17th-century Spain.
    • Economically, the plague destroyed the labor force as well as creating a psychological blow to an already problematic Spain.
  • Diocletian and the Tetrarchy

    • Facing the pressures of civil war, plague, invasion, and economic depression, Diocletian was able to stabilize the Roman empire for another hundred years through economic reform and the establishment of the Tetrarchy.
  • Renaissance Writers

    • His major work was the Decameron, a collection of 100 stories told by ten storytellers who have fled to the outskirts of Florence to escape the black plague over ten nights.
    • A depiction of Giovanni Boccaccio and Florentines who have fled from the plague, the frame story for the Decameron.
  • Justinian and Theodora

    • A terrible plague swept through the empire, killing Theodora and almost killing him.
    • The plague wiped out huge numbers of the empire's population, leaving villages empty and crops unharvested.
  • Greek Dark Ages

    • Many large-scale revolts took place in several parts of the eastern Mediterranean during this time, and attempts to overthrow existing kingdoms were made as a result of economic and political instability by peoples already plagued with famine and hardship.
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