The death toll the Black Death left was unfathomable. England's population was cut down by at least 1/4. But 2/3 of France's people died. But that's not all! Later, smaller outbreaks of the plauge kept the populations form recovering. And the famous Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio worte about his expiriences: "This disaster struck such fear into the hearts of men and women...Brother abondoned brother. Uncle abondoned nephew. Sister left brother. And very often wife abondoned husband...even worse, almost unbelieveable- fathers and mother neglected to tend and care for their children.". This was how unfortunate the circumstances got.
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I would hate tolive there. I never knew it got so bad! But did they have ANY sort of treatment, and why id everybody just fend for themselves?
ReplyDeleteI would have taken care of my kids then, no matter what they had>:`(
ReplyDeleteNo treatment, exept for leaching if the plague was at the begining stages. And you need to think of the parents, maybe they would have just hurt the children more if they didn't abandon them, Hannah.
ReplyDeleteWow that is very sad 1/4 of England's population
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