consequences

Demographic consequences; ** The disease spread throughout the Western parts of the world and reached pandemic proportions due to changes in lifestyle - people were moving from the country villages to highly populated towns. The formation of major cities and increased travel by various world civilisations, the disease rapidly spread throughout Asia. The Black Death followed the Trade Routes. The Trade routes provided access to all corners of the known world. The increased use of the trade routes ensured that the disease spread throughout the World. We should also remember that it was not just Europe and Africa that were devastated by the deadly disease. Countries such as China suffered horrendously from the 1328 outbreak with their population dropping from 125 million to 90 million during just the middle half of 14th century. **

social consequences: The Black Plague has an incubation period, from infection to the first symptoms, of approximately six days. The initial symptom is a blackish pustule forming over the point of the bite, followed by swollen lymph nodes near that bite. This is followed by subcutaneous hemorrhaging, which produces bruise-like purple blotches, called buboes, on the victim's skin. It is from this word,that the black plague takes its name. Bubonic Plague is the least toxic of the three types, but still kills 50 to 60% of its victims

economic consequences: The Black Death is the name later given to the epidemic of plague that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351. The disaster affected all aspects of life. Depopulation and shortage of labor hastened changes already inherent in the rural economy; the substitution of wages for labor services was accelerated, and social stratification became less rigid. Psychological morbidity affected the arts; in religion, the lack of educated personnel among the clergy gravely reduced the intellectual vigor of the church. "In less than four years the disease carved a path of death through Asia, Italy, France, North Africa, Spain and Normandy.

environmental consequences: The first instance of a plague outbreak in Europe was Justinian's Plague, which raged from 541 to 544 AD, with sporadic lesser outbreaks of the plague lasting until the end of the Eighth Century. Outbreaks of Justin's Plague almost invariably followed the same pattern. It is believed to have been carried down the Nile, from East Africa into the Mediterranean Basin. It rapidly spread along the trading routes from Egypt's main port, Alexandria, to Central and South Asia, Arabia, North Africa, and much of Southern Europe. Justinian's Plague was quite terrible.

political consequences: The plague had no permanent effect on the course of politics, but it did do its damage. King Alfonso XI of Castile was the only reigning monarch to die of the Black plague, but many lesser notables died, including the queens of Argon and France, and the son of the emperor. Parliaments were adjourned when the plague struck, though they were reconvened.