Yes, obviously our family ancestors in Europe were smart enough/lucky enough to get the heck out of these places and maybe go into the countryside. Or just be in remote areas and not come out during that mess.
A certain immunity is always present for some people, and many religious practices are simple hygiene bases. Somebody figured out that having dirty hands make people sick, so god tells you to wash your hands, same with the circumcision and removing the blood of the butchered animals etc. They did not know how, but they know something was bad and they fund a solution.
I don't blame them for thinking it was the end of the world. It must of felt like that. Especially since the world population was way lower then , so that who died was a huge % of world population...
@@getmeouttahere3595 I mean over 15000000 people died of covid. Still a large number. Covids a wake up call cause there's plenty of diseases with pandemic potential that have a much higher virulence and covid only had a 0.06 percent mortality rate. Mers is a coronavirus and has a 30 percent mortality rate. H5N1 is a bird flu and has a 60 percent mortality rate in infected cases. Those are just tiny examples, there's so many viruses and bateriums out there with pandemic potential.
The longer episode was great! I really appreciate you putting in that extra effort to make it almost 40 minutes. I listen these videos while at work and it really helps the day go by while also satisfying my need for new information. Thank you so much!
@Katarina Love - Sadly , offering up conspiracy theories and insufferable republican rage grievance hysterics. Much like the superstitious behavior of the dark Ages. Insufferable. ☄️
I couldn’t imagine how it felt to be in those Italian cities during this plague there was so much death in the air it probably was almost palpable. Those Italian cities were cities of the dead
Almost? They say the stench of death was so vile you could smell it before even reaching the cities. Lots of dead, rotting, poorly buried bodies. This added to the circle of rats and fleas. It worsened the plague. In countries where burning the dead is a regular practice, the plague wasn't as fast spreading. Because the bodies werent lying in the streets as rotting vectors for rats, fleas and disease. Eventually Christians caught on and started burning bodies and items too.
People in those days would've had a much different relationship with death than we do today. Even outside of epidemics of disease, death was everywhere. Even kings struggled to live to 50 years old. Families were very close. You would've lived with your parents until you were married and even after that, you likely didn't move far. Most people had probably watched multiple relatives get sick and die by early adulthood. Few diseases had known medical cures. You either recovered or you didn't. This kind of existence makes it easy to understand why medieval people sought such a close relationship with God.
I have watched plenty of documentaries on the plague, this is by far the best produced, most informative and entertaining one. Love the format and citations, it really helps you imagine that point in time. Thank you!
I really enjoyed this episode. I thought at first "hmm a plague docu I'm sure it won't be much different to the others but I'll watch", but it really is different to the others. We never hear about the individuals or the little instances. I also enjoyed a longer video
If I am ever tempted to complain about my situation, I often think of these times. I am grateful to be where I am and I am grateful for the bravery of those who overcame this.
Another great, informative episode and brilliant narration!! We are also treated to a longer episode so we can really get our teeth into it! Hope all Medieval Madness fans are well and wishing you all love, luck and peace. Love from loyal fan xxxx
I don't have anything constructive to add other than I found this extremely informative, very enjoyable to watch and thank you for taking the time and effort to create this. Great work!
As he stated there where people who thought it wasn't as bad as the stories being told, sounds like there where definitely deniers but eventually it's going to be hard when 80% of the population gets dumped in the ground disrupting food production, destroying trade, emptying cities and making the continent look like its Judgement Day.
Man, a post apocalypse survival game, after The Black Death would be cool. Going from tavern to tavern, having to find something to survive, avoiding some of your former neighbors, I would defiantly play that game.
People still get it all the time, we just have antibiotics to knock it out now. I actually caught it from cat saliva (so my pediatrician at the time said) because I’m a dumbass that spends 75% of my day snuggling cats. I didn’t develop disgusting buboes, but my lymph nodes did swell up all over my body, which I’d never seen any but the nodes in my throat swell before (or since). Including in my groin area, which I’ve never seen during any other illness I’ve had in life. It scared the shit out of me. I don’t even remember very much of the two weeks I was sick, other than laying in the library in my parents home on a bed in very low light and being kind of delirious a lot of the time. It’s a bizarre memory. I suppose I was in a feverish haze the whole time. It was the fucking PITS.
Such a bullcrap about cats...Probably your filthy ancestors were those who blamed jews for black death spreading.Kind of peeps who need to blame somebody ... By the way cats of the time were killed in masses been accused by the church for been Satan servants . I don't have any ampathy for filthy aggressive folks lived in Europe that time.Good that they were wiped out of the face of the Earth
You did a truly excellent job on this video, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the parts of your presentation that discuss Africa and Asia. Most plague documentaries never discuss Asia at all, and the reality is that China got absolutely pummeled by the plague, and they kept decent records about it. Places like Kazakhstan and Iran got it, too, but their records aren't as detailed as the Indian and Chinese records. It's a really important part of understanding this disease and this specific outbreak, and a lot of people just ignore it. I pointed that out once on someone else's plague video, and he reminded me that Ukraine is in Europe. I was like, thanks, buddy, I actually knew that. My point was that you left out half of the story in favor of only talking about Europe. He stopped talking to me after that. I get that kind of thing a lot when I ask to have more non-European history, isn't that strange? Something that fascinates me is that we basically just confirmed what caused the Black Death outbreak. When I was in college, there was still quite a bit of debate about what the underlying cause was. A few people really thought it was smallpox, which... I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure people back then knew what a smallpox outbreak was. It was a daily issue in their lives. No one was like "uh oh, everyone has smallpox", everyone who wrote about it was saying "what the hell, is God mad at us, is this the end of days". We were only able to confirm that Y. pestis was the cause of the outbreak in 2010. Even more recently than that, we confirmed that Y. pestis was also the cause of the Justinian Plague. It's kind of freaky that it popped up a couple of times in Europe, smacked India around for a couple of decades, laid low for about a thousand years, and then came back and took a quarter to a third of everyone. It never went away, either. In places with rodents and inadequate sewage systems, floods come with plague. You could get it in the good old USA just from swimming in the wrong pond. Lucky us, we have very effective treatments. It just makes me wonder if something like H1N1 is going to come back in a few hundred years and lay waste to humanity again.
Well, to be fair, the title of this video ends with, "…Ravaged Europe," so that's explicitly the topic of the video. Also, "The Black Death," is the name given _specifically_ to the mid-14th Century Y. pestis pandemic _in Europe._ Now I only learned, in the past decade or so, that The Plague came to Europe due to Mongol biological-warfare, which the Mongols, in turn, had contracted in China, then carried across the Eurasian Steppe due to their expert use of horses for rapid travel. I was not, however, aware that China was ravaged by it - I thought it was simply endemic in China and that the Chinese had immunity that Europe didn't. I was also unaware that The Plague made its way into South-Asia. Would love to hear more about what was happening in East and South Asia, including per-capita death rates compared to Europe, and what it was called in these other locations.
What a great comment this was. Very interesting about the 2010 outbreak and the fact it is Y.Pestis that was responsible and not a 'mystery' anymore. Now you say we have very effective treatments? You seem to be in the know, would you share with us what effective treatment there is today about it?
It tried this time but modern medicine & hygiene, & nutrition made a difference. Read an article the other day that said the overwhelming majority of fatalities in the US were >65. I believe COVID was much worse in other nations but it was bad enough here. Think about it, a million people, just gone in a year.
@@starcrib That's a real concern & this is why. Viruses mutate all the time. Usually it's a degradation of the DNA, but once in a blue moon it mutates in a way that makes it stronger or unrecognizable to the immune system. That's very bad. What happened to the chickens? Theres a chance it could happen to us.
Can I just say I really like the addition of the more modern photos and video clips. They somehow pin the events in reality. It’s easy to lose the truth of the medieval period within its own artwork and texts.
Yes, Please! I loved this format. There is just no way to convey the horror of the black death, but the facts you provided are chilling. I wonder why Italy was hit disproportionately hard by the black death and then covid. Could there be a common cause there? Anyway, keep up the good work.
Commercial and highly densely populated areas are breeding ground for epidemics. Plenty of Chinese nationals live in northern Italy, where C19 exploded in early 2020.
My guess would be simply geography. Italy being where it is, a major central port for trade and travel from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. If they had closed it all off from foreigners, Italians might have had a better chance.
Actually the British isles were the worst hit. The plague there was even more virulent that in other places. Also the plague was probably the even worst in asia but we don't really have much info from that time in Asia besides that it started there.
How could a parent not tend to their child. I would tend to my children and if my children died, i would prefer i go with them. How sad, especially for the young children. My kids always just wanted mom when they were little and didnt feel well.
It's the consequences of a completely demoralised society collapsing, combined with a last ditch effort at self-preservation. Remember that by then these people had already been trough hell, most of their families where probably dead, their crops rotting on the fields and their animals long gone (if not by plague then by theft or carnivorous animals like bears or wolves) food production was disrupted and cities where not functional because a large part of the population was gone. They where truly living is a time so terrifying we can't imagine it.
This was so good! Thank you for taking some of the great advice I’ve seen posted with the background music and making the videos longer! It’s so appreciated. Not sure if this is possible or not but for a video idea I would love to hear any written first hand experiences from someone who has lived through the plague or just the medieval time period in general, such as a journal or a diary. Another idea- medieval machinery?
Wonderful episode as always! 🤩I love learning and devouring any material about the Black Plague; I even wrote my final term paper on art during the plague waves. Brilliant research James 💖👏✨
This educated us a lot more than any classroom. Your channel SHOULD be allowed in every single classroom across the world. Please do a lot more of these types of videos!!
It was so bad and so memorable to Western culture that we know it simply as "the plague". The simple term "the plague" even hundreds of years later and everyone still knows what's being referenced.
I can't believe I've never heard of your channel! I have at least a 100 history UA-camrs on my subscriptions, but now I have 101! Lol awesome work, making a subject so talked about feel fresh
My ancestors on my father's side were somewhat noble Scots of fairly ancient ranking, and my ancestors on my mom's side were sorta high ranking Craftsmen who worked their way into power, and it constantly impresses me that both families are so ancient and they both survived the Black Death *multiple times*. Come to think of it... I don't tend to get sick that often, and when I do it's very brief. Incredible stuff.
This is a very well put together video. Thank you for your channels awesome content. Did the black death ever make it to south America? Or medieval Russia/Japan/Australia? Do we know? I've just not noticed those regions being mentioned with the black plague.
It didn’t arrive in the New World until European immigrants did. Then, the poor Native Americans were wiped out (estimated 90% mortality for the two American continents) by various Old World diseases to which they had no immunity at all, unlike Europeans of the time, and modern ones. Experts think that smallpox was the biggest killer, but there were many others, like plague. Sadly, few really cared enough about these people to diagnose and record specific diseases and mortality numbers, it all has to be estimated.
it would be interesting to see a video on misconceptions about the black death, so many ppl i talk to seem to think that the plague doctors of the 17th century were from the 14th century outbreak for example
I really enjoyed this longer format video of yours as my only criticism of your content is that it’s too short! I think you should release more like this, thank you for your time :D
No one at my school talked about that aftermath you said. The fact people were left with houses, terrains. People no longer believed or stayed under his hers masters governmnt and parted away looking for independence, I can surely feel that good vibe from it.
Can you imagine being the guy that solved this shit by telling the people to "stay at home and social distance"? I mean, it did safe the Pope, one of the most influencial people of the era...
Absolutely remarkable video. Your narrative is astonishing relaxing to the point of tranquility. Which is incredible in its own right when dealing with such a historic morbid time.
I love your show. I’m American, here in Florida. It’s a funny story, but my Grandmother was “ Bubo” to us. We pronounced it Buh- Boh. Anyway, it all came about because my eldest brother was being taught about Buffaloes by my Grandmother. He couldn’t say “ Buffalo “, just “ Bubo”, so that was her name for all of the grandchildren. She wasn’t the nicest person ( neither am I, admittedly). However, it was really ironic when I learned about what the sores were called during The Black Plague.
Very nice presentation. As far as I can see the period of the black death had little to do with the renaissance which was already occurring before and survived despite the plague. The medieval ages were a time of enlightenment. Calamity happens. Humans persevere.
I appreciate the mention at the finale which states the Black Death's cause as a mystery. We have been lead to believe that we now "know" it was bacterial. The manner in, and the speed at which it spread seems to me that it was probably viral. It's interesting how badly "we" freaked out over COVID, and the mortality rate was at most 0.1%, while influenza was roughly 2.0%. Can you imagine an illness with a 30.0% mortality rate? Medieval Europe lived through that! Staggering!
It’s been well established for over a century that it is caused by the bacterium Yersinia Pestis. Recent research suggests that bites of body lice may also be a vector of transmission- given how medieval families would often share a bed and not launder their clothes, may explain the rapid spread.
Yersenia Pestis still survives. There's usually a couple cases a year in the US. It is a bacteria transmitted primarily by fleas or other rodents(such as prairie dogs). But it can go pneumonic, such as COVID did. It's no match for modern antibiotics though. Thank God.
I think we "freaked out" over covid because we know about the black death and there was a chance that it could be just as deadly. Thank goodness for modern technologies it was not.
@@jetsandthebombers coronavirus was never anything like as dangerous as the plague. With no treatments or vaccines at all, it would still not have had a comparable death rate. Leftists believe a lot of covid myths. Democrats who were polled said they believed it had a 40% death rate. Utterly false.
Thumbs up. Best vid on topic several insights no one else mentioned. Not saying your other vids are lacking in any way just this level adds final touches.
Excellent visuals and pace, Thank You for your work and time. Useful for it for students learning about the dark age of human history on planet Earth. Thank you very much.
When the narrator said the plague moved at 5 miles per day I got chills down my spine, that’s an astonishing level of movement for a disease, that’s definitely not normal. I’d agree with scientists and historians, it was some hybrid disease that just ran amok and devastated everywhere it went.
Astonishing ? Any disease now adays can be in China , Europe , Russia , Asia and Africa all in the same day bye just hopping on a plane. Imagine if we had a disease that is just as virulent and even more contagious with no cure nowadays.... The world wouldnt be able to survive. We would be thrown back to medieval times. Scary stuff...
This was so interesting. Thanks for your hard work in putting this long one together for us! One thing I was totally unaware of, was how the Jewish population was used as scapegoat for the plague. They really can’t catch a break huh..
The last two years were a pandemic. A pandemic is the term used for a disease that spans the entire developed world. Considering that Covid-19 was spread over the entire developed world and even made it out to super remote areas, it definitely fits the description of a pandemic. An epidemic is the term used for something that only covers a certain area, hence why the Black Death isn't considered by all historians to be a pandemic, as it didn't affect the rather advanced civilizations of America at the same time it affected Europe. A lot of Asia was also spared and same goes for Africa, so it was more of an epidemic than a pandemic. As for the Covid-19 Pandemic, it is still waay too early to conclude anything. The mutated SARS virus, which caused the pandemic, had some pretty serious variants at first. Sure, you wouldn't really get sick if you were younger... At least not the first couple of times. But if we take the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants as examples, then they were all capable of infecting any part of your body and cause irreversible damage to your tissue, meaning your body would break more and more down after each infection. The Delta variant could possibly also infect the brain itself, making it capable of causing all kinds of extra trouble. And we haven't even talked about what SARS itself is, nor that the original SARS virus doesn't have a cure of any form, what so ever. SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which, translated to normal English, means it is 100% capable of killing people. Unlike the common cold, SARS usually infects the lower respiratory system, which means the lungs and the regions surrounding the heart. I don't think I have to explain why that is seriously bad. Now add SARS_CoV_2, the mutated variant of SARS itself, which caused the pandemic and which has the ability to infect any part of the body and you have a virus that's already deadly on its own, but now it can also infect any system in your body, including the heart itself. But wait, there's more! Not only is it incredibly dangerous just by the above description, it also possesses a gene that allows it to suppress the cells warning signal to the immune system, which basically lets it infect a huge part of the body, before the immune system realizes it has been tricked. The SARS_CoV_2 virus is, as it's name implies, a member of the Corona Virus family (because their structure looks like a crown... at least in the eyes of a biologist). That's one hell of a problem, because that means it mutates often. As in, very often. One of the viruses that causes the common cold, is also a member of the Corona virus family and the same counts for normal influenza. Protection against the latter actually requires a new vaccine every single year, because it mutates so frequently. This SARS variant is worse. It mutates every couple of months, meaning there's constantly a new variant we aren't protected against. In fact, the vaccine won't even cover the new variants that will arrive this winter. I was offered a 4th jab at the doctors office about a week ago (which I accepted). Which brings us to a talk about what this actually is and why we haven't been able to just "kill" it yet. We haven't been able to kill it, because a virus isn't alive. It literally doesn't live and we can't kill something that isn't alive in the first place. The problem with viruses is, that they're small bits of genetic code, protected by a protein shell, which our immune systems first have to break through, before they can destroy it. That quickly becomes problematic, when the virus mutates faster than our bodies can adapt, making it literally impossible for us to ever be properly protected against it, hence why we need constant vaccines, as vaccines are the only weapon we have against it, but vaccines won't help someone who's already infected. Viruses work by reprogramming the cells of the body, converting them from their task of keeping you alive, and into becoming virus factories. You won't experience any symptoms of infection, before there's been enough infected cells to either alert the immune system or activate the virus method of spreading to other hosts (for Covid, that would be through the air and/or bodily fluids). We also aren't done with the pandemic. It's not over yet. Omicron can still infect every part of your body, although it usually stays in the upper respiratory system, such as your nose, mouth and throat. But it still has all the genes to fuck up the human body, big time. Including the same gene the Delta virus have, which may be able to let it infect the brain. Normally the Corona virus family can't survive the summer months, hence why we've gotten a break during this time of year. Normally. Around mid June, a new variant was discovered. A variant that allows the SARS variant that causes Covid, to survive during the summer months and infect us in those months too, basically screwing us over all year round. There's no medicine against this virus. There's only the vaccine and the guidelines. Follow them and you decrease the chances of the virus spreading, as it needs a host in order to multiply. Leave it without a host for 24 hours and it disintegrates and becomes harmless. Hence why distance and face masks are a good idea during when at events with many people. Sanitizer also destroys the virus, hence why that's a guideline too. And an updated vaccine is of course the best method of protection against it, but it won't be the entire package. A vaccine can only provide a percentage of protection and that percentage will never be 100%. I also want to clarify that what I've written here, isn't fear mongering. I haven't taken this from generic media articles, but from what I was able to find of scientific news regarding the virus during the past 2 years, as I have had and still have, a genuine interest in learning more about biology.
@@Arterexius super detailed reply. It makes sense. The only thing I would criticise is that the best immune system protection seems to come from being injected, which is risky. So injections first to give some protection, and hopefully then if you do get it you'll recover and have even better protection. Until the next variant! :-) Unfortunately I heard a BBC news morning presenter the other day say something along the lines of "the vaccines don't seem to be stopping this variant". I thought the vaccines don't stop it at all but what they do is give you some protection by having your immune system primed to be ready for the virus. I thought the vaccines just give you immunity from severe illness so that if you get it you don't become severely sick. Is that right? I do wonder if the world got together and picked a certain date and everybody agreed to a one month lockdown if we could actually stop it? If we plan for the lockdown say in 1 years time and everybody would agree we would have enough food etc and be ready and pick our bubbles and we would stay in one location for 1 month. Would that work? Would we be free of it?
What a horrendous disease. It’s repugnant that parents abandoned their sick children. If my child was that sick I’d tend them in order that I might die with them.
This world is merciless and cruel. I think the only reason that we continue to have children is that young people don't know any better until it's too late. I love both of my kids but I do look on them as the most selfish act of my life.
Found this vid cause of you! Also yeah never understood why some people are attracted to living like rodents in a massive complex of human industrial landscape
My daughter cleans with thieves oil, so l learned a bit about it's bubonic background. Apparently, when caught robbing the afflicted the judge asked how they avoided the disease. They wore the beaked masks filled with the essential oils used in today's cleaning product.
Can you do a video on doctors and how the Black Death allowed autopsies to be preformed more often? I heard it basically was taboo until the plague happened.
This was awesome, even though I’m probably the world’s most accredited internet historian on the Black Death that ever lived™️, I still learned something. I do like the long versions of your stories. Thank you! Signed, Internet Genius
The issue I have with the narrative of the bodies being catapaulted is that, being a port, the ship rat would be well esconsed in Caffa itself anyway. It is likely there would have been Plague there before the bodies were catapaulted. Gabriel De Mussis was on one of the galleys that left Caffa, and was crystal clear in his testimony that there were no Plague cases on his ship from Caffa to Genoa. That doesn't mean that one of the other seven galleys did not have Plague cases. If they did, they would have died before they reached Genoa. It is the rats that would have spread it into Genoa. It should be noted that Venice had Plague every year, being a very busy port city and getting goods from around the world. So Plague would have opened at least two fronts in Italy,
I know we like to make fun of medieval Europeans for being superstitious, but if a disease swept through and wiped out 50-70% of the world population now I think most people would think or at least behave as if the apocalypse was upon us.
While millions of people died in Europe in the black plague, the reason why very few lives were lost in the Balkans and Anatolia is the fact that the Ottomans instilled a habit of cleanliness in these geographies. The Ottomans were the first to bring soap and toilet paper to Europe and the Balkan societies and had baths built in many parts of the country. Number of people who died from black plague in the Balkans and Anatolia is very low because people use soap and toilet paper and washing baths frequently. Even today, the habit of washing hands is much higher in the Balkan countries than in other European countries.
This is the best video I've seen on this topic. What strikes me is just how fast the disease spread and how afraid people must have been not knowing the true cause. The other thing is what people are willing to do in horrific circumstances. The pogrom of the Jews, while very tragic, is eye opening in terms of showing what we are all capable of. It's almost like the disease had a secondary social contagion to it. It's easy to think that we would do better, but given the same experiences, I'm not sure we would have.
Good documentary, however, what you didn't discuss is why did the plague stop. As you correctly state, it returned every thousand years or so for 300 years and then just disappeared. I would have ben interested to hear your thoughts on that.
I clicked on this video and didn't even realize how few views it currently has (43k as of 7/18/22) until I went to comment and saw only 150 comments! (No offense haha I'm just so used to channels with this production level having way more subs & views. Especially when it comes to videos that UA-cam decides to recommend to me. I mean it as a compliment!) This has great production level and honestly not that indistinguishable from other UA-cam videos on the black death (& related topics) I've watched that have millions of views. (Indistinguishable to me at least, but I'm really picky lol, and unfortunately get annoyed by bad production very easily, so I do mean it as a sincere compliment!) Audio sounds good and I think the music is well balanced. Probably my biggest issue with so many UA-cam video essays is background music that is too loud, badly mixed, and/or just clashes with the tone, etc. It's gotten to a point where I just prefer video essays with no music. Especially if it can't be done perfectly because it's so distracting. The only reason I've ever clicked off of videos I've wanted to keep watching has always been the music. But this video walks that line. 👍 Now that I'm done watching, I remember it has music - strings - but I don't remember ever being distracted by it. _(If I was distracted by it at one point, then I'd definitely have a memory of me thinking about it and then a memory of me thinking about how I wished UA-camrs would just stop adding music tracks to their perfectly good scripts lol.)_ Sorry for the ramble lol. Just wanted to leave this comment to say good job and that I hope you keep making content and keep gaining traction! Obviously, it's a total gamble when it comes to succeeding on UA-cam, because the algorithm has to promote you over the ~billion other videos uploaded every month. So all I say is that I definitely won't be surprised if at some point you "blow up." I mean, you got recommended to me (I wasn't searching for this) and not only am I subscribed to 500+ channels, I don't even watch many videos on history. I do watch videos on diseases & general science though, so that's why it makes sense that your black death video would be the one put in my feed. 😊
I'm amazed when I think about how many of us are more than likely descendants of people who survived the plagues throughout history
Yes, obviously our family ancestors in Europe were smart enough/lucky enough to get the heck out of these places and maybe go into the countryside. Or just be in remote areas and not come out during that mess.
Speak for yourself, I'm exclusively descended from people who died in the black death.
All of us...
DUHHH!!!!!!
A certain immunity is always present for some people, and many religious practices are simple hygiene bases. Somebody figured out that having dirty hands make people sick, so god tells you to wash your hands, same with the circumcision and removing the blood of the butchered animals etc.
They did not know how, but they know something was bad and they fund a solution.
I don't blame them for thinking it was the end of the world. It must of felt like that. Especially since the world population was way lower then , so that who died was a huge % of world population...
I mean think of how fucked everything got when COVID hit and that killed about 0.1% of the world population.
Must have*
I mean, look at how some people reacted during covid lol
Exactly what would you think of you lived through that ❤ horrific experience
@@getmeouttahere3595 I mean over 15000000 people died of covid. Still a large number. Covids a wake up call cause there's plenty of diseases with pandemic potential that have a much higher virulence and covid only had a 0.06 percent mortality rate. Mers is a coronavirus and has a 30 percent mortality rate. H5N1 is a bird flu and has a 60 percent mortality rate in infected cases. Those are just tiny examples, there's so many viruses and bateriums out there with pandemic potential.
The longer episode was great! I really appreciate you putting in that extra effort to make it almost 40 minutes. I listen these videos while at work and it really helps the day go by while also satisfying my need for new information. Thank you so much!
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@Katarina Love - Sadly , offering up conspiracy theories and insufferable republican rage grievance hysterics. Much like the superstitious behavior of the dark Ages. Insufferable. ☄️
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Its good to know how things happened, to know how to survive ,if possable
Yup, 👍 I listen when driving to and from work thank you
I couldn’t imagine how it felt to be in those Italian cities during this plague there was so much death in the air it probably was almost palpable. Those Italian cities were cities of the dead
Almost? They say the stench of death was so vile you could smell it before even reaching the cities. Lots of dead, rotting, poorly buried bodies. This added to the circle of rats and fleas. It worsened the plague. In countries where burning the dead is a regular practice, the plague wasn't as fast spreading. Because the bodies werent lying in the streets as rotting vectors for rats, fleas and disease. Eventually Christians caught on and started burning bodies and items too.
I'd surely choke to death from the stench alone! Not to mention the disease itself.
@@kittye8340 Or London and Paris, for that matter.
@@sergpie Yes. And Rome and Naples
People in those days would've had a much different relationship with death than we do today. Even outside of epidemics of disease, death was everywhere. Even kings struggled to live to 50 years old. Families were very close. You would've lived with your parents until you were married and even after that, you likely didn't move far. Most people had probably watched multiple relatives get sick and die by early adulthood. Few diseases had known medical cures. You either recovered or you didn't. This kind of existence makes it easy to understand why medieval people sought such a close relationship with God.
I have watched plenty of documentaries on the plague, this is by far the best produced, most informative and entertaining one. Love the format and citations, it really helps you imagine that point in time. Thank you!
So well and informatively presented, I didn't notice when 40 minutes had passed
You didn't notice the rash of ads?
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I really enjoyed this episode. I thought at first "hmm a plague docu I'm sure it won't be much different to the others but I'll watch", but it really is different to the others. We never hear about the individuals or the little instances. I also enjoyed a longer video
Bc this channels awesome
Well said.
Omg, I love this extra long video! I never found a video that explained this much about how it spread
Finally a channel where I can enjoy everything medieval. Thank you for such incredible videos and hope to watch more of "Medieval Madness",
old man
This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. Thank you for all the work you put into it.
If I am ever tempted to complain about my situation, I often think of these times. I am grateful to be where I am and I am grateful for the bravery of those who overcame this.
Another great, informative episode and brilliant narration!! We are also treated to a longer episode so we can really get our teeth into it! Hope all Medieval Madness fans are well and wishing you all love, luck and peace. Love from loyal fan xxxx
I don't have anything constructive to add other than I found this extremely informative, very enjoyable to watch and thank you for taking the time and effort to create this. Great work!
Oh RATS! It's the plague! Let's FLEA this place!
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Too soon, bad taste.😮
Excellent work. I was throughly impressed with the presentation. Thank you!
I'm not trying to be funny. I really do wonder were there plague deniers back then.
Lol. I imagine there were people who didn't believe it until they saw it for themselves.
There will always be a section of humanity who believe "If it doesn't happen to me, it doesn't happen."
The people in Italy partying like it’s 1999 may have been somewhat in denial.
As he stated there where people who thought it wasn't as bad as the stories being told, sounds like there where definitely deniers but eventually it's going to be hard when 80% of the population gets dumped in the ground disrupting food production, destroying trade, emptying cities and making the continent look like its Judgement Day.
Exactly where the feminists were in Nowhere
Brilliant video! How heartbreaking that parents didn't care for their sick children or any family member for that matter. A very dark period of time.
The idea of catapulting dead bodies into a city you want to invade is both horrifying and oddly hilarious.
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Man, a post apocalypse survival game, after The Black Death would be cool.
Going from tavern to tavern, having to find something to survive, avoiding some of your former neighbors, I would defiantly play that game.
you should play a D & D campaign based on this time! 😊 it would be perfect!
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Agreed, and in my opinion, scarier as it's based on a 'real life' event in our history.
@@zosoart you haven't done this?
There is a game on steam called black death which is basically that
@@zosoart That's a great idea, though it would take a special DM to get that set up, someone willing to put in the time and effort to research.
People still get it all the time, we just have antibiotics to knock it out now. I actually caught it from cat saliva (so my pediatrician at the time said) because I’m a dumbass that spends 75% of my day snuggling cats. I didn’t develop disgusting buboes, but my lymph nodes did swell up all over my body, which I’d never seen any but the nodes in my throat swell before (or since). Including in my groin area, which I’ve never seen during any other illness I’ve had in life. It scared the shit out of me. I don’t even remember very much of the two weeks I was sick, other than laying in the library in my parents home on a bed in very low light and being kind of delirious a lot of the time. It’s a bizarre memory. I suppose I was in a feverish haze the whole time. It was the fucking PITS.
you survived and learn and became stronger which is important
Spending all day cuddling with cats? Sounds perfectly normal to me. You don’t need to swear, though, to get your points across.
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 Jesus, you must be fucking fun to hang out with
@@kimberlyperrotis8962 very nice comment.
Such a bullcrap about cats...Probably your filthy ancestors were those who blamed jews for black death spreading.Kind of peeps who need to blame somebody ...
By the way cats of the time were killed in masses been accused by the church for been Satan servants .
I don't have any ampathy for filthy aggressive folks lived in Europe that time.Good that they were wiped out of the face of the Earth
You did a truly excellent job on this video, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate the parts of your presentation that discuss Africa and Asia. Most plague documentaries never discuss Asia at all, and the reality is that China got absolutely pummeled by the plague, and they kept decent records about it. Places like Kazakhstan and Iran got it, too, but their records aren't as detailed as the Indian and Chinese records. It's a really important part of understanding this disease and this specific outbreak, and a lot of people just ignore it. I pointed that out once on someone else's plague video, and he reminded me that Ukraine is in Europe. I was like, thanks, buddy, I actually knew that. My point was that you left out half of the story in favor of only talking about Europe. He stopped talking to me after that. I get that kind of thing a lot when I ask to have more non-European history, isn't that strange?
Something that fascinates me is that we basically just confirmed what caused the Black Death outbreak. When I was in college, there was still quite a bit of debate about what the underlying cause was. A few people really thought it was smallpox, which... I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure people back then knew what a smallpox outbreak was. It was a daily issue in their lives. No one was like "uh oh, everyone has smallpox", everyone who wrote about it was saying "what the hell, is God mad at us, is this the end of days". We were only able to confirm that Y. pestis was the cause of the outbreak in 2010. Even more recently than that, we confirmed that Y. pestis was also the cause of the Justinian Plague. It's kind of freaky that it popped up a couple of times in Europe, smacked India around for a couple of decades, laid low for about a thousand years, and then came back and took a quarter to a third of everyone. It never went away, either. In places with rodents and inadequate sewage systems, floods come with plague. You could get it in the good old USA just from swimming in the wrong pond. Lucky us, we have very effective treatments. It just makes me wonder if something like H1N1 is going to come back in a few hundred years and lay waste to humanity again.
Well, to be fair, the title of this video ends with, "…Ravaged Europe," so that's explicitly the topic of the video. Also, "The Black Death," is the name given _specifically_ to the mid-14th Century Y. pestis pandemic _in Europe._
Now I only learned, in the past decade or so, that The Plague came to Europe due to Mongol biological-warfare, which the Mongols, in turn, had contracted in China, then carried across the Eurasian Steppe due to their expert use of horses for rapid travel.
I was not, however, aware that China was ravaged by it - I thought it was simply endemic in China and that the Chinese had immunity that Europe didn't. I was also unaware that The Plague made its way into South-Asia. Would love to hear more about what was happening in East and South Asia, including per-capita death rates compared to Europe, and what it was called in these other locations.
What a great comment this was. Very interesting about the 2010 outbreak and the fact it is Y.Pestis that was responsible and not a 'mystery' anymore. Now you say we have very effective treatments? You seem to be in the know, would you share with us what effective treatment there is today about it?
It tried this time but modern medicine & hygiene, & nutrition made a difference. Read an article the other day that said the overwhelming majority of fatalities in the US were >65. I believe COVID was much worse in other nations but it was bad enough here. Think about it, a million people, just gone in a year.
How about H1-N1 in 5 / 10 Years - ? BRACE YOURSELF. we are living in the age of Pandemics. 🌬🦠🌏🌎🌍💣
@@starcrib That's a real concern & this is why.
Viruses mutate all the time. Usually it's a degradation of the DNA, but once in a blue moon it mutates in a way that makes it stronger or unrecognizable to the immune system. That's very bad.
What happened to the chickens? Theres a chance it could happen to us.
Absolutely immersive and informative. Loved every second despite the grim information within.
Can I just say I really like the addition of the more modern photos and video clips. They somehow pin the events in reality. It’s easy to lose the truth of the medieval period within its own artwork and texts.
Yes, Please! I loved this format. There is just no way to convey the horror of the black death, but the facts you provided are chilling. I wonder why Italy was hit disproportionately hard by the black death and then covid. Could there be a common cause there? Anyway, keep up the good work.
Commercial and highly densely populated areas are breeding ground for epidemics. Plenty of Chinese nationals live in northern Italy, where C19 exploded in early 2020.
My guess would be simply geography. Italy being where it is, a major central port for trade and travel from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. If they had closed it all off from foreigners, Italians might have had a better chance.
@@CleoVonGemI completely agree.
Actually the British isles were the worst hit. The plague there was even more virulent that in other places. Also the plague was probably the even worst in asia but we don't really have much info from that time in Asia besides that it started there.
How could a parent not tend to their child. I would tend to my children and if my children died, i would prefer i go with them. How sad, especially for the young children. My kids always just wanted mom when they were little and didnt feel well.
It's the consequences of a completely demoralised society collapsing, combined with a last ditch effort at self-preservation.
Remember that by then these people had already been trough hell, most of their families where probably dead, their crops rotting on the fields and their animals long gone (if not by plague then by theft or carnivorous animals like bears or wolves) food production was disrupted and cities where not functional because a large part of the population was gone.
They where truly living is a time so terrifying we can't imagine it.
So interesting and so devistatingly sad. Your documentaries keep getting better and better.
This was so good! Thank you for taking some of the great advice I’ve seen posted with the background music and making the videos longer! It’s so appreciated.
Not sure if this is possible or not but for a video idea I would love to hear any written first hand experiences from someone who has lived through the plague or just the medieval time period in general, such as a journal or a diary.
Another idea- medieval machinery?
If you'd like to hear some first person accounts check out Voices of The Past.
Maybe Petrarch?
I realize this is a serious production, but Monty Python’s Holy Grail kept crossing my mind as you narrated.
This is fantastic! I learned more than I ever knew about this subject, thank you so much for your time and effort. It really paid off! 🤜🏼
Wonderful episode as always! 🤩I love learning and devouring any material about the Black Plague; I even wrote my final term paper on art during the plague waves. Brilliant research James 💖👏✨
This educated us a lot more than any classroom. Your channel SHOULD be allowed in every single classroom across the world. Please do a lot more of these types of videos!!
It was so bad and so memorable to Western culture that we know it simply as "the plague". The simple term "the plague" even hundreds of years later and everyone still knows what's being referenced.
I can't believe I've never heard of your channel! I have at least a 100 history UA-camrs on my subscriptions, but now I have 101! Lol awesome work, making a subject so talked about feel fresh
My ancestors on my father's side were somewhat noble Scots of fairly ancient ranking, and my ancestors on my mom's side were sorta high ranking Craftsmen who worked their way into power, and it constantly impresses me that both families are so ancient and they both survived the Black Death *multiple times*.
Come to think of it... I don't tend to get sick that often, and when I do it's very brief. Incredible stuff.
Good genes 👍🏻
Well if they or their offspring had er survived they wouldn't be anyones ancestors.
Literally anyone alive now with more than 50% western European heritage can make that exact claim, with varying degrees of "I rarely get sick".
Well done lad! This was professionally done and a great watch 😃. You deserve far more subs and recognition 👏🏾
An excellent, thought provoking & enlightening documentary! Thank you & Well done.
Nothing is more dangerous than a population that is under the terror of a pandemic and the throes of ignorance. 💔
COVID wasn't as bad as people state. It had a 1 percent mortality. Bubonic plague has an 80 percent mortality.
No one is talking about Covid here@@Styxswimmer
But as it stands, there were a lot of moronic right wingers during covid. No shock there.
This is a very well put together video. Thank you for your channels awesome content. Did the black death ever make it to south America? Or medieval Russia/Japan/Australia? Do we know? I've just not noticed those regions being mentioned with the black plague.
It didn’t arrive in the New World until European immigrants did. Then, the poor Native Americans were wiped out (estimated 90% mortality for the two American continents) by various Old World diseases to which they had no immunity at all, unlike Europeans of the time, and modern ones. Experts think that smallpox was the biggest killer, but there were many others, like plague. Sadly, few really cared enough about these people to diagnose and record specific diseases and mortality numbers, it all has to be estimated.
it would be interesting to see a video on misconceptions about the black death, so many ppl i talk to seem to think that the plague doctors of the 17th century were from the 14th century outbreak for example
I really enjoyed this longer format video of yours as my only criticism of your content is that it’s too short! I think you should release more like this, thank you for your time :D
Great episode, well structured and an atmosphere that is very fitting. This video was great
Thank you for this. Very easy to understand the trajectory of it, because of the way you covered it.
Great video James! I would definitely love to see more documentaries like this one!
i hate james
No one at my school talked about that aftermath you said. The fact people were left with houses, terrains. People no longer believed or stayed under his hers masters governmnt and parted away looking for independence, I can surely feel that good vibe from it.
Dude that was an amazing work of art! Please make as many of these sorts of videos as you possibly can!
Can you imagine being the guy that solved this shit by telling the people to "stay at home and social distance"? I mean, it did safe the Pope, one of the most influencial people of the era...
Absolutely addicted to your channel now! Just amazing videos! 👍🏼👍🏼
I am seeing parallels between then and now. The more things change, the more theybstay the same.
Men change nations fall and rise, but war never changes.
Oh shut up
Absolutely remarkable video. Your narrative is astonishing relaxing to the point of tranquility. Which is incredible in its own right when dealing with such a historic morbid time.
Your use of the dies irae throughout was a brilliant touch. After all, Engarandus Juveni probably wrote the motif due to the Momento Mori movement.
What a great documentary!! Thanks a lot for your effort, really awesome job. Keep it up!!
I love your show. I’m American, here in Florida. It’s a funny story, but my Grandmother was “ Bubo” to us. We pronounced it Buh- Boh. Anyway, it all came about because my eldest brother was being taught about Buffaloes by my Grandmother. He couldn’t say “ Buffalo “, just “ Bubo”, so that was her name for all of the grandchildren. She wasn’t the nicest person ( neither am I, admittedly). However, it was really ironic when I learned about what the sores were called during The Black Plague.
Very nice presentation. As far as I can see the period of the black death had little to do with the renaissance which was already occurring before and survived despite the plague. The medieval ages were a time of enlightenment. Calamity happens. Humans persevere.
I appreciate the mention at the finale which states the Black Death's cause as a mystery. We have been lead to believe that we now "know" it was bacterial. The manner in, and the speed at which it spread seems to me that it was probably viral. It's interesting how badly "we" freaked out over COVID, and the mortality rate was at most 0.1%, while influenza was roughly 2.0%. Can you imagine an illness with a 30.0% mortality rate? Medieval Europe lived through that! Staggering!
It’s been well established for over a century that it is caused by the bacterium Yersinia Pestis. Recent research suggests that bites of body lice may also be a vector of transmission- given how medieval families would often share a bed and not launder their clothes, may explain the rapid spread.
Yersenia Pestis still survives. There's usually a couple cases a year in the US. It is a bacteria transmitted primarily by fleas or other rodents(such as prairie dogs). But it can go pneumonic, such as COVID did. It's no match for modern antibiotics though. Thank God.
We have a couple cases out here in Wyoming & Colorado.
The pneumatic plague is the one that frightens me. It’s very fast.
I think we "freaked out" over covid because we know about the black death and there was a chance that it could be just as deadly. Thank goodness for modern technologies it was not.
@@jetsandthebombers coronavirus was never anything like as dangerous as the plague. With no treatments or vaccines at all, it would still not have had a comparable death rate. Leftists believe a lot of covid myths. Democrats who were polled said they believed it had a 40% death rate. Utterly false.
This is one of my favourite videos to watch, thanks for the awesome content !
This video was incredible. I would definitely like to see more videos in this format. Cheers!
Quality content, world history is often so disturbing.
Thumbs up. Best vid on topic several insights no one else mentioned. Not saying your other vids are lacking in any way just this level adds final touches.
Awesome documentary! Thanks for the presentation - I learned a lot!
Excellent visuals and pace, Thank You for your work and time. Useful for it for students learning about the dark age of human history on planet Earth. Thank you very much.
Just found your channel today and I am absolutely hooked.
When the narrator said the plague moved at 5 miles per day I got chills down my spine, that’s an astonishing level of movement for a disease, that’s definitely not normal. I’d agree with scientists and historians, it was some hybrid disease that just ran amok and devastated everywhere it went.
Astonishing ? Any disease now adays can be in China , Europe , Russia , Asia and Africa all in the same day bye just hopping on a plane. Imagine if we had a disease that is just as virulent and even more contagious with no cure nowadays.... The world wouldnt be able to survive. We would be thrown back to medieval times. Scary stuff...
This was so interesting. Thanks for your hard work in putting this long one together for us! One thing I was totally unaware of, was how the Jewish population was used as scapegoat for the plague. They really can’t catch a break huh..
They were used as scapegoat for everything... Jews were often wealthy and wealth makes your neighbors jealous.
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They've also been kicked out of 110 countries
Lol there’s a reason they can’t catch a break. They´re not victims
@@DobBylan_ Indeed, a people are not persecuted and kicked out of countries for thousands of years without reason.
I dont get how "rub some human poop on it" became a "cure" back then. I cant even imagine the thoughts behind that.
Some thought, sadly, that like will treat like, thus a stinky gross wound should be treated with something just as bad or worse.
Very interesting video, I'd certainly welcome more like it!
Great vid, very informative.Loved the paintings.
Interesting to get some perspective about an actual pandemic. Our response over the past two years has been as absurd as it has been ineffective.
A covid denier whinging on a plague video. How original 🤡
It was very effective in destroying the economy and creating widespread poverty.
Based and common sense pilled
The last two years were a pandemic. A pandemic is the term used for a disease that spans the entire developed world. Considering that Covid-19 was spread over the entire developed world and even made it out to super remote areas, it definitely fits the description of a pandemic. An epidemic is the term used for something that only covers a certain area, hence why the Black Death isn't considered by all historians to be a pandemic, as it didn't affect the rather advanced civilizations of America at the same time it affected Europe. A lot of Asia was also spared and same goes for Africa, so it was more of an epidemic than a pandemic.
As for the Covid-19 Pandemic, it is still waay too early to conclude anything. The mutated SARS virus, which caused the pandemic, had some pretty serious variants at first. Sure, you wouldn't really get sick if you were younger... At least not the first couple of times. But if we take the Alpha, Beta and Delta variants as examples, then they were all capable of infecting any part of your body and cause irreversible damage to your tissue, meaning your body would break more and more down after each infection. The Delta variant could possibly also infect the brain itself, making it capable of causing all kinds of extra trouble. And we haven't even talked about what SARS itself is, nor that the original SARS virus doesn't have a cure of any form, what so ever. SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which, translated to normal English, means it is 100% capable of killing people. Unlike the common cold, SARS usually infects the lower respiratory system, which means the lungs and the regions surrounding the heart. I don't think I have to explain why that is seriously bad. Now add SARS_CoV_2, the mutated variant of SARS itself, which caused the pandemic and which has the ability to infect any part of the body and you have a virus that's already deadly on its own, but now it can also infect any system in your body, including the heart itself.
But wait, there's more! Not only is it incredibly dangerous just by the above description, it also possesses a gene that allows it to suppress the cells warning signal to the immune system, which basically lets it infect a huge part of the body, before the immune system realizes it has been tricked. The SARS_CoV_2 virus is, as it's name implies, a member of the Corona Virus family (because their structure looks like a crown... at least in the eyes of a biologist). That's one hell of a problem, because that means it mutates often. As in, very often. One of the viruses that causes the common cold, is also a member of the Corona virus family and the same counts for normal influenza. Protection against the latter actually requires a new vaccine every single year, because it mutates so frequently. This SARS variant is worse. It mutates every couple of months, meaning there's constantly a new variant we aren't protected against. In fact, the vaccine won't even cover the new variants that will arrive this winter. I was offered a 4th jab at the doctors office about a week ago (which I accepted).
Which brings us to a talk about what this actually is and why we haven't been able to just "kill" it yet. We haven't been able to kill it, because a virus isn't alive. It literally doesn't live and we can't kill something that isn't alive in the first place. The problem with viruses is, that they're small bits of genetic code, protected by a protein shell, which our immune systems first have to break through, before they can destroy it. That quickly becomes problematic, when the virus mutates faster than our bodies can adapt, making it literally impossible for us to ever be properly protected against it, hence why we need constant vaccines, as vaccines are the only weapon we have against it, but vaccines won't help someone who's already infected. Viruses work by reprogramming the cells of the body, converting them from their task of keeping you alive, and into becoming virus factories. You won't experience any symptoms of infection, before there's been enough infected cells to either alert the immune system or activate the virus method of spreading to other hosts (for Covid, that would be through the air and/or bodily fluids).
We also aren't done with the pandemic. It's not over yet. Omicron can still infect every part of your body, although it usually stays in the upper respiratory system, such as your nose, mouth and throat. But it still has all the genes to fuck up the human body, big time. Including the same gene the Delta virus have, which may be able to let it infect the brain. Normally the Corona virus family can't survive the summer months, hence why we've gotten a break during this time of year. Normally. Around mid June, a new variant was discovered. A variant that allows the SARS variant that causes Covid, to survive during the summer months and infect us in those months too, basically screwing us over all year round.
There's no medicine against this virus. There's only the vaccine and the guidelines. Follow them and you decrease the chances of the virus spreading, as it needs a host in order to multiply. Leave it without a host for 24 hours and it disintegrates and becomes harmless. Hence why distance and face masks are a good idea during when at events with many people. Sanitizer also destroys the virus, hence why that's a guideline too. And an updated vaccine is of course the best method of protection against it, but it won't be the entire package. A vaccine can only provide a percentage of protection and that percentage will never be 100%. I also want to clarify that what I've written here, isn't fear mongering. I haven't taken this from generic media articles, but from what I was able to find of scientific news regarding the virus during the past 2 years, as I have had and still have, a genuine interest in learning more about biology.
@@Arterexius super detailed reply. It makes sense. The only thing I would criticise is that the best immune system protection seems to come from being injected, which is risky. So injections first to give some protection, and hopefully then if you do get it you'll recover and have even better protection.
Until the next variant! :-)
Unfortunately I heard a BBC news morning presenter the other day say something along the lines of "the vaccines don't seem to be stopping this variant". I thought the vaccines don't stop it at all but what they do is give you some protection by having your immune system primed to be ready for the virus. I thought the vaccines just give you immunity from severe illness so that if you get it you don't become severely sick. Is that right?
I do wonder if the world got together and picked a certain date and everybody agreed to a one month lockdown if we could actually stop it? If we plan for the lockdown say in 1 years time and everybody would agree we would have enough food etc and be ready and pick our bubbles and we would stay in one location for 1 month. Would that work? Would we be free of it?
You mentioning ambergris made me think of the Futurama episode where fry drinks 100 cups of coffee
Brilliant documentary 💯🔥
Awesome stuff as always. Will you be making more videos on medeival warfare?
Very interesting. I thought I knew a bit about the black death but I certainly learnt a lot more.
What a horrendous disease. It’s repugnant that parents abandoned their sick children. If my child was that sick I’d tend them in order that I might die with them.
I would tend to my kids ,I couldn't desert them because they had plague
Very informative video ... I enjoyed watching the video ... Thank you for sharing ...
Appreciate these informative videos!
Your channel is an undiscovered jewel 💎 of UA-cam good sir! From a person binge watching all your content lol 😂
finaly another episode of how to die in medieval period :))))) love these shows
Just to clarify the dire situations, 30 - 60% of the world died because of the black plague, that would be almost 2.5 - 4.64 billion.
you have a wonderful voice for this sort of work you have earned my subscription
Such an insightful and informative video! Thanks for your hard work, and keep it up!
Rewatching this after a couple of years. Definitely prefer the longer format ✌🏻
This world is merciless and cruel. I think the only reason that we continue to have children is that young people don't know any better until it's too late.
I love both of my kids but I do look on them as the most selfish act of my life.
@bruh bruhson Just dumbassess then...?
An excellent documentary which was well presented and narrated.
so, we've known since the 14th century to avoid crappy cities 🤣🤣
Found this vid cause of you! Also yeah never understood why some people are attracted to living like rodents in a massive complex of human industrial landscape
Now European cities are dumping grounds for the worlds unwanted
The most thorough explanation and accounting of the Black Death I have ever heard. ❤
My daughter cleans with thieves oil, so l learned a bit about it's bubonic background. Apparently, when caught robbing the afflicted the judge asked how they avoided the disease. They wore the beaked masks filled with the essential oils used in today's cleaning product.
This content is exactly what I have been looking for!! Keep up the good work, I am learning so much!
Can you do a video on doctors and how the Black Death allowed autopsies to be preformed more often?
I heard it basically was taboo until the plague happened.
Well done, thoughtful work. I felt transported back in time
Thanks for this video! Very informative.
I fell asleep to these. Glad I found this channel.
Very well narrated!
Watching this with a wicked cold. Brings a whole new meaning to it.
This really puts covid into perspective.
This was awesome, even though I’m probably the world’s most accredited internet historian on the Black Death that ever lived™️, I still learned something. I do like the long versions of your stories. Thank you! Signed, Internet Genius
The issue I have with the narrative of the bodies being catapaulted is that, being a port, the ship rat would be well esconsed in Caffa itself anyway. It is likely there would have been Plague there before the bodies were catapaulted. Gabriel De Mussis was on one of the galleys that left Caffa, and was crystal clear in his testimony that there were no Plague cases on his ship from Caffa to Genoa. That doesn't mean that one of the other seven galleys did not have Plague cases. If they did, they would have died before they reached Genoa. It is the rats that would have spread it into Genoa. It should be noted that Venice had Plague every year, being a very busy port city and getting goods from around the world. So Plague would have opened at least two fronts in Italy,
I know we like to make fun of medieval Europeans for being superstitious, but if a disease swept through and wiped out 50-70% of the world population now I think most people would think or at least behave as if the apocalypse was upon us.
While millions of people died in Europe in the black plague, the reason why very few lives were lost in the Balkans and Anatolia is the fact that the Ottomans instilled a habit of cleanliness in these geographies. The Ottomans were the first to bring soap and toilet paper to Europe and the Balkan societies and had baths built in many parts of the country. Number of people who died from black plague in the Balkans and Anatolia is very low because people use soap and toilet paper and washing baths frequently. Even today, the habit of washing hands is much higher in the Balkan countries than in other European countries.
This is the best video I've seen on this topic. What strikes me is just how fast the disease spread and how afraid people must have been not knowing the true cause. The other thing is what people are willing to do in horrific circumstances. The pogrom of the Jews, while very tragic, is eye opening in terms of showing what we are all capable of. It's almost like the disease had a secondary social contagion to it. It's easy to think that we would do better, but given the same experiences, I'm not sure we would have.
Good documentary, however, what you didn't discuss is why did the plague stop. As you correctly state, it returned every thousand years or so for 300 years and then just disappeared. I would have ben interested to hear your thoughts on that.
I clicked on this video and didn't even realize how few views it currently has (43k as of 7/18/22) until I went to comment and saw only 150 comments! (No offense haha I'm just so used to channels with this production level having way more subs & views. Especially when it comes to videos that UA-cam decides to recommend to me. I mean it as a compliment!)
This has great production level and honestly not that indistinguishable from other UA-cam videos on the black death (& related topics) I've watched that have millions of views. (Indistinguishable to me at least, but I'm really picky lol, and unfortunately get annoyed by bad production very easily, so I do mean it as a sincere compliment!)
Audio sounds good and I think the music is well balanced. Probably my biggest issue with so many UA-cam video essays is background music that is too loud, badly mixed, and/or just clashes with the tone, etc. It's gotten to a point where I just prefer video essays with no music. Especially if it can't be done perfectly because it's so distracting. The only reason I've ever clicked off of videos I've wanted to keep watching has always been the music.
But this video walks that line. 👍
Now that I'm done watching, I remember it has music - strings - but I don't remember ever being distracted by it.
_(If I was distracted by it at one point, then I'd definitely have a memory of me thinking about it and then a memory of me thinking about how I wished UA-camrs would just stop adding music tracks to their perfectly good scripts lol.)_
Sorry for the ramble lol. Just wanted to leave this comment to say good job and that I hope you keep making content and keep gaining traction!
Obviously, it's a total gamble when it comes to succeeding on UA-cam, because the algorithm has to promote you over the ~billion other videos uploaded every month.
So all I say is that I definitely won't be surprised if at some point you "blow up."
I mean, you got recommended to me (I wasn't searching for this) and not only am I subscribed to 500+ channels, I don't even watch many videos on history.
I do watch videos on diseases & general science though, so that's why it makes sense that your black death video would be the one put in my feed. 😊