HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Yersinia Pestis, Little Ice Age, Lymph Node
4 Apr 2018
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European population at its peak around 1300: wages were low, rents were high, scarcity of productive land; subsistence is best-case scenario. Series of famines in the early 14th century: great famine (1314-17) a ects most of northern europe (cold winters, rainy summers, livestock disease, associated with the little ice age (period of cooler climate in the early modern period) Population growth levels o in the early 14th c. and begins to decline well before the. Plague caused by the bacterium yersina pestis, which lives in the digestive tract of the rat ea, xenopsylla cheopis, which lives in the fur of the black rat. : (mainstream) plague is the result of imbalances in the celestial and/or terrestrial realms that had been created a miasma of corrupt air, which was now moving from place to place. Tuesday, april 3, 2018: (fringe) contagious, passes from person to person.
