The Black Death: History's Darkest Chapter
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- Witness the dark tale of Caffa in 1347, where war, plague, and biological warfare intersected to spark the Black Death. Discover how a single event led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.
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What’s even crazier is that the Black Death coincided with the Mongol Conquests, which themselves had already killed millions and toppled ancient empires. It really must have felt like the end of days.
Not the mention the fact that Europe went through a horrible famine just a few decades earlier. The 14th century is probably still the worst period in history to have lived in.
Add the plague deaths to those killed directly by the Mongols, and you probably have the largest per capita loss of life in world history.
@@marktg98
I'd argue the 20th century was worse. The 20th century was bloodier. Across most of the globe major conflicts left millions dead. Massive famines, natural and man made, left millions and millions dead. Genocides left millions dead. Colonial empires exploited entire continents. Decolonization left much of the world indefinitely unstable, often in a state of unending civil war. The Spanish Flu was the deadliest pandemic in human history by body count. There were also plague, smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, etc epidemics. Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons were used in anger. The only things that mitigated the horrors of the 20th century is the day to day comforts modern technology provided, the agricultural revolution following the invention of the Haber-Bosch process, and the lightning fast advancement of modern medicine. We were better off at the end of the 20th century than the beginning but it was the most turbulent century in human history.
And a little ice age at the start of the century to boot
Religious people will tell you now that this is the worst the world has ever been. 😂
The next time you think your life sucks, remember how lucky you are to be alive today instead of back when diarrhea was a sure sign of impending death.
For sure. These days diarrhea is just a sign of Taco Bell.
Cholera, etc. still exist.
Coughing up blood is still a bad sign....
I'll never take Immodium for granted again
Diarrhoea was the biggest killer in ancient Rome, especially during the plague of Justinian which was more than likely the first mass incident involving Yersinia Pestis.
I work in Public Health Emergency Preparedness. In the Four Corners states Yersinia Pestis is endemic. We see it almost yearly, but it is caught before it spreads. Even so, we train for an outbreak, especially in the Tribal Nations where we see the most cases. Once its past them and in to a main travel artery (interstate), we are screwed. The only saving grace is it's almost always bacterial and doesn't become Pneumonic or Septicemic.
It's insane how many swords of Damocles we have hanging over our head as a species.
Even then, we have antibiotics.
Prairie dogs! I remember seeing signs warning people away from certain prairie dog colonies on the Front Range in Colorado in the late 1990s.
Maybe the real black death was the friends we made along the way.
Rats. I made friends with rats. And fleas.
Common medieval prisoner L
A gentle friend like Ben.
As a rat owner, I can say yes, we made rat friends.
There’s two comments I always remember. One (since I heard that one first), is, and I can’t remember who said it, is “if somebody from the past, could be dropped into our times, they would have thought they died and went to heaven” . Black Death, Huns, Romans or whoever just attacking your village, etc. The list goes on and on with antibiotics and pain and birth control. The second one is “The past was the worst.” Right there with you, Simon. I actually use that one a lot😉
That record by Agnolo Di Tura was chilling:
“There was no one who wept for any death, for all awaited death. “
And so many died that all believe it was the end of the world.”
And then for him to reveal the plague forced him to bury his own five children.
The symptoms truly make the Black Death appear to be a Super Plague, no ordinary one.
Another really haunting account came from a minister in London, Thomas Vincent:
_Now the people fall thick as leaves in Autumn when shaken by a strong wind... There is a deep silence in every place... Now the nights are too short to bury the dead._
You know what? Despite the problems of our time, we are in a good time. We spend so much time complaining that we are not grateful for what we have.
Yes! I can’t understand why so many people are so obsessed with believing that these are the worst of times!
Yes. People complain readily these days. That's my complaint 😂
Finally, somebody with a rightious mind.
Simon has it right: The past was the worst.
@@Mai353 Friend, I spent two weeks in hospital and underwent surgery. That time made me rethink how I saw things. Thank God i am back at home and now i want to live a better life.
What many in USA don't know is that its endemic in the Sierras in northern Califrnia. It's an ongoing monitoring situation. USA sees average of 7 cases a year
It's also treatable with a simple course of antibiotics.
@@tripsaplenty1227 that'd probably bankrupt someone there.
@@papabray4703 it can, sadly.
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there is no patent for penicillin. Even without insurance antibiotics are affordable for almost anyone in the USA. In the case of the plague a doctor would probably be willing to provide a course for free. There is no money in withholding antibiotics when needed.
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There is no patent on penicillin and there isn't much money in standard antibiotics. A doctor would probably be willing to provide a plague patient with a course for free.
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Here’s an extra tidbit for the history buffs- Archaeological findings showed that skeletons in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s are over represented (compared to the usual mortality of the old and the young in epidemics) in mass burials. The Great Famine of 1315-1318 likely lowered the resilience of those who had survived through it as children (stunted growth/malnutrition in childhood, etc.) leading to higher death rates.
As well, said famine, caused by extreme cold and wet weather, was the most likely culprit for causing the migration of plague vectors from Central Asia.
The historical impact of the Black Death just cannot be overstated.
They didn’t know about the 6 foot distance rule
Honestly it was probably for the better. With a massive drop in people to be used as cheap labor it let the lower classes negotiate with the upper classes for pay and freedoms. The upper classes couldn't exploit the poor as much.
@@rubiconnn personally I think the death of millions and the persecution of minorities as a negative.
@@rubiconnn That's true. It also encouraged the gradual shift towards being more hygienic. Though that would take several more centuries to improve on.
Excellent video! I want to extend a special thanks to the editor (S.C. Trujillo) for removing problematic words without beeps or quacks or other annoying sounds that disrupt the flow of the video.
"Bring out yer dead!"
"I'm not dead yet! "
I feel Happeeee....I feel Happeee
@@user-ri5fe7ti6i I don't want to go on the cart!
"they're on tour"
Same time tomorrow?
Who knew that learning about dark history could be so enlightening.
Many historians believe the Black Death led to the reformation and a huge improvement in general life in Europe
Just an aside, remember eggs and apples were much smaller then
The people too
@@raptorhacker599 true, so maybe it kinda equals out? But I don't want ANY tumors, apple and egg sizes not withstanding, lol
@@rachelwitherspoon4394😅
This topic is definitely worth more than a 15 minute video.
536 AD is considered by some historians as the worst year in recorded history - it would make a great episode!
He already did, just not sure which channel
@@ericvacca551probably multiple channels. Because our Fact Boi is creatively bankrupt and loves sweet sweet money.
@@ericvacca551 It's on Sideprojects, just search Simon Whistler 536 AD.
2024 has bigotry but whatevs
@@therunningman1 get a grip buddy
"Jemanden die Pest an den Hals wünschen" is a german curse, still known today. Imagine a sickness so horrifying it is remembered more than 600 Years later. Etched into the collective memory.
last time I was this early, i had to deal with the Black Death
Great video as always. Suggestion for a future video. The 1919 Red Summer
Hi, Simon. Love your channels, love that you're so keen on sharing information with us, and I just wanted to return the favour a tiny bit. There was a study done in 2018 where the belief that "the fleas on rats" spreading the Bubonic Plague was dispelled using the socioeconimic paths of the era, and it was, instead, shifted to "human fleas and body lice". Future infections spread might have been caused by the fleas on the rats, but the initial infection... the one that started in 1347... that one was almost definitely spread by humans and their unending filth.
Not animals.
It's worth mentioning that the famous plague doctor outfit was invented in the 16th Century, so wouldn't have been seen in the Black Death of the 1340s.
Good video though, interesting even though the plague has been thoroughly covered!
Thanks Simon and Co!
Have I watched at least 273 vids on the black death hosted by Simon? Yes.
Am I gonna watch this one on his own channel? Also yes!
Do you realize he owns most of the channels he does videos on right? The only ones he didn't were Top Tenz, Biographics, and Geographics.
@@GrievousReborn OK?
Do you realize those are the exact channels I watched religiously?
@@GrievousReborn who asked
Another excellent documentary. Thank you.
Wooooooo Simon's on fire today!
You mean perhaps that he’s reading today’s script with a little more interest than usual while still butchering pronunciation
The Black death certainly was a very Dark period
This is what a pandemic is really like. Society today couldn't deal with the magnitude of something like this. We're still trying to recover from covid. Which when put in prospective was nothing compared to The Plague.
I hate to break it to you bud but they couldn’t handle it back then either😂 but yeah go off I guess you’re only making yourself look bad😂
Covid did much less damage because of lessons learned from past pandemics like this 🙄
let’s get into the shadows the best channel to 1 million subs guys
I swear to God I'm gonna start seeing Simon in bushcraft videos before long. Gonna start seeing him in my closet next
To quote an famous UA-camr: The past was the worst!
Ring a round a rosy.
A pocket full of posies.
A tissue, a tissue.
We all fall down.
The Plague Doctor outfits with the beaks are NOT from the Black Death, the earliest record we have for them is 1619. They were absolutely present during the 17th century outbreaks, especially in 1665 in London but it's a common misconception that they were present during the 14th Century.
0:31 lethal thickness did you say..? Well, lets begin..!
And when Covid struck we still weren’t prepare and panicked like a chicken with its head cut off
Half the continent perished. We haven’t seen anything like that in eons.
Covid
@@Christian-vq8rd covid was nothing compared to the Black Death.
@@Christian-vq8rdNot even close.
@@Christian-vq8rdThankfully, it didn’t get to those numbers.
@crampusmaximus8849 I was joking
Closest humanity got to extinction.
The past was characterized by shocking squalor.
The Tarters method of catapulting plague corpses may have been the first act of biological warfare ever
I was falling asleep watching this... but when I heard "antibiotic resistant plague" my eyes shot right open. Pure nightmare fuel
Omg, those sound like the symptoms I’m currently experiencing 😨
It's my first time experience Simon talk's without too much background music. But it is suitable with the story
Very informative
The reality of this was so apparent. What happened in 2020 was tiny compared to this. 100s of millions died. Understandably, our medical science and technology have grown leaps and bounds since then. Still. This is a reminder of how good things are nowadays.
Homeless encampments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, etc., are starting to develop the plague through rodents and unclean conditions (waste disposal, etc.).
Imagine learning about plagues like this and then refusing to self quarantine or wear a mask.
A more logical nation would've sunk the boats to prevent the spread to other areas. It's reasonable to want to flee, but if you're already exposed, why expose others?
Comparing Coronavirus to the Black Death is not even REMOTELY intellectually honest.
Damn I picked a good time to take a break lmao.
11:39
Doctors: "This disease comes from having sex."
Lawmakers: "Roger that, let's punish women for them making men want to have sex."
History is so fked lol
@@user-ri5fe7ti6iI think that was the op’s point.
I had read that Poland did fairly well durring plague because most europeans sort of forced Jews to move to Poland, and ritual bathing was a common regular thing before services, it kept the rodents and their fleas away a lot better. Especially without pork in the yard.
Islamist: “look! The Jews knew how to counter the plague, this means they invented it to control the world, you see!”
Hoo hasn't Simonodoommaster been here already with this un?
“Ring around the rosey” - The tale tale ring around the sores.
“Pocket full of posies” - The flowers used to mask the stench of the dead, some even putting flowers inside the dead’s burial shrouds.
“Ashes, ashes” - The ashes from the mass pyres for the dead.
“We all fall down.” - The death of all people due to the plague.
The beak masks were not worn during the plague in the 1300s. They were used during the plague in the 17th century. It’s a common error that is made.
You should have talked about the fleas. Yersinia pestis uses them as a vector, and clogs their intestines, so that they are unable to digest their meal. They stay hungry, look for another host, and another, and another...
Simon, you listed poor and less widely developed nations. Yet it appears even in the USA. I'm very glad that it's a treatable version.
And Yet we are here again.
Bring out your dead
Bring out your dead
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But I'm not dead...
I am yours Sir, ye are blood of my blood and bone of my bone.
The small town I live in and our neighboring village were both hit hard with the plague with death rates exceeding 80% as documented by chronicles. As mentioned in the videos, the dead were buried in mass graves. It is said, that they started diging a trench (dumped the corpses and covered with earth) which they extended until the plague ran out of steam. The beginning and end of the mass grave were each marked with stone crosses which were placed there a year or two after the plague lost its steam by a local stonemason. In my town, the mass grave has a length of approx 400m!
Just to get an imagination with the situation (as Stalin supposedly said: 'One dead is a tragedy, a million dead is statistics.')
Next time, you are around your family, friends and coworkers, imagine that eight out of ten are dead within a year...
I live near a town called "Pitsea" which, legend has it, is called as such because it was a pit, near the sea (Thames estuary really) to dispose of plague victims.
Is Bargain Booze still there? Not been that way for a while.
@@noticer786 I live just up the road in Southend, but I'm sure it's still there if it has "booze" on the signs! Last time I was in Pitsea, I went to Wat Tyler park.
@@tbondielli2419 I’m from Colchester, I used to go with a girl who was from Rayleigh many years ago and she took great pleasure in showing me the delights of “Vange” as a one up on our “Jaywick”
We used to go see her friends in Pitsea so Bargain Booze was a regular pit stop before starting the weekend 😂
and weirdly enough, the Covid incident showed us that humans never learn...
I mean, don't get me wrong, plenty of good old fashioned human stupidity on display during (and after, and before) Covid but you could argue we did, in fact, learn.
If you consider how quickly it was brought under control (or mostly under control at least) due to modern medicine and science and cooperation (Covid vaccine was the biggest scientifc collaboration in the history of humanity) compared to the epedemics of the past, it's actually pretty impressive.
In England so many people died that the Feudal system broke down over the next two centuries, unlike in continental Europe, where that system was a cause of later revolutions. Because of the already smaller population, who didn't travel as we can today in England. Less people lead to better working conditions, due to need for workers, so wages and conditions improved, because workers with various skills were scarce. Further to that more land and houses for the survivors. Add to that the runctions of ownership of the English crown, over the next few centuries, England benefited in the long run, like other parts of Europe didn't.
What? another channel? Cool!
Black Plague will never get old
And people thought Covid was bad
10:41 I think I found the ones who were blaming certain ethnic groups.
my ex bf is a microbiologist. during his phd program, he accidentally infected himself with the plague via needle pricks. twice 🤦🏼♀️ but really though, mice are unpredictable, squirmy, smart, and can easily cause havoc
I think the population be today if black death & Spanish flu the big pandemics in history never happened, the population be like the global issues and conflicts it possible bring ,is it possible the post pandemics may of been a necessary evil for the benefit of mankind be a good video
We probably would have just made up for it with Wars.
An estimate of the case fatality rate for the modern plague, after the introduction of antibiotics, is 11% although it may be higher in underdeveloped regions.
For comparison's sake, Covid has a 1.03% kill rate. It killed roughly 25-32 million world wide. Try not to think too hard about what 11% looks like.
And we thought Covid was bad!!!
People who thought COVID was bad had no perspective on history and/or unfortunately bought into fear mongering
I'm surprised to not see a link to your more indepth video into the Black Death over on your Biographics channel. A recommended watch, if you enjoyed this video btw :)
He is no longer on Biographics
That wasn't "his" channel. He was the host. I believe this is his own channel
I always thought Crimea was in Europe..
To those who wish to return to a quieter, more idyllic time, I direct you to this video.
I'm sure there is a good middle ground between the time of the black death and the time of social media accounts focused on farting on cakes.
I've seen a lot of these pest stories but to be honest, i still don't know how we can protect ourselves from it, maybe by staying in our homes like what happened with covid ?
Right when people were waking up from the dark ages, plague hits.
Imagine when snake venom is a plausible solution in your mind.
You forgot to mention lice as a major contributor 😮
Ok, „BOKAYSIO”???? 😂😂😂
Almost every year, there is a case of bubonic plague in inner Mongolia because of the tradition of eating raw marmot liver
On average 10 people in the US will get it every year, with 16 people dying from it since 2000.
Quasimodo predicted all this
-bobby bacala
Yeah, but did they have to fight for toilet paper at Costco.
😮😮😮 holy crap!! 🤮🤮🤮
The good old days, when women werent allowed in shops.
AM I RIGHT PETER?!
20 minutes gang!
The most important event in European history.
And any one of European descent had ancestors who survived the Black Death.
One minor silver lining. As bad as it was, the Black Death probably helped us evolve a much healthier immune system since the immune, and partial immune, would have lived at a much greater rate than those who were susceptible.
Imagine what the world would have been like now if the plague had never happened …
LMAO!!! Poor!!!
And here I thought the Black Death was OJ Simpson
Thankfully for them, it was nowhere near as bad as Covid
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Gerbils and hamsters are to blame, the glorious rat has been slandered for far too long 😤
good quality video fact boi keep it up
The shit that gets censored, thike the french word for shit.
pneumonic is 100% septicemia is the 90% one
2020 .. worst year ever.. Plague victims flipping them off..
I remember going to Paris. The smell that I recall from that city leads me to believe that traditions really DO hold strong!
Eggy weggs
@4:43 These outfits didn't exist until the early 1700's
You mean 17th century
average “i was born in the wrong generation” sayer when you show them the date penicillin and modern disease killers were invented 😳😳😳
You speak with about 5 accents at once