Notes 4-21

• 1348-1350- Events in this time change the future of Europe.
• The black plague claimed over 20 million lives.
• It was carried in the bloodstream of black rats and the fleas that bit them.

• One man got the plague, but he researched and tried to treat himself, and he ended up surviving. He also discovered that there were two types of plague.
• Many people knowingly went through pain and suffering thinking that God might see their suffering and take away the plague. People would hit and beat themselves.
• In two years, the plague had swept across northern Europe and then some of Asia.
• It killed a third of Europe's population.
• People believed in God more, but they had less faith in the church itself.