ANTHROP 2U03 Lecture 4: Week 4
6 Dec 2017
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They grew to the size of a small apple or an egg, more or less, and were vulgarly called tumors. In a short space of time these tumors spread from the two parts named all over the body. Soon after this the symptoms changed and black or purple spots appeared on the arms of thighs or any other part of the body, sometimes a few large ones, sometimes many little o(cid:374)es . 50 million people: mr 3% Blach death as the image of plague. Devastated eurasian populations, perhaps 30 million deaths in western europe in 20 years. Today, believed to have been caused by bubonic plague: a zoonosis (zoonotic disease) Medie(cid:448)al plague (cid:862)the bla(cid:272)k death(cid:863: ca. Modern plague 1855 to : (cid:862)the thi(cid:396)d pa(cid:374)de(cid:373)i(cid:272)(cid:863) The spread of the black death throughout europe. May have started in southern russia or india. Spread west and north to europe in 14th century. In oct 1347, arrived in sicily by ship.
