black+death

John Tweardy PD: 3 8/31/10 Mayor during the Black Death

During the black the city was dying slowly the mayor saw that the housing situation was dead the food was slowly going and the people were dying. So he tried sending doctors to help but they kept on dying, and shortly after the doctors were all gone. He was told by priests that it was sent by god to punish them so the priests left to try and repent for their sins. This actually just helped the plague spread. So the mayor had no idea what caused the plague. Unfortunately forty thousand people died in Paris during the Black Death the ones who survived were next to dead so the mayor asked the king what to do the king did nothing. For hundred people died every day, seven thousand houses, and at the end the population of Paris was less than fifty thousand. The mayor then decided to send the corpses to another area because the cemeteries were getting eleven hundred corpses a day. The mayor sent every one home and had soldiers and doctors go to every house with food water and what medicine they had. The ones that had the plague were stuck in their homes and the ones that didn’t have it had to go to a separate part of the city. Also he had the animals sent to another shelter and all rats killed. Then later the death got worse it went up to eight hundred deaths a day so the mayor sent his family to the country side and tried to handle the death himself. Then the pope sent for water and food because it was all infected by the Black Death. The mayor’s then discovered that the disease could infect the air to so he just gave up it was over. He just sat down and waited to die. Fortunately though the Black Death did not kill everyone but he survived with fifty thousand people were still alive. So he and his people began getting rid of the bodies and hoping they do not infect them while burning the bodies and clothes. The end was the wors because people were afraid of comeing to paris because they did not want to get sick.  John Tweardy World Cultures Pd: 3 C.P.   Aramis (Henri d’Aramatiz) - joined musketeers in 1640, married in 1654 had three children and died in 1674. Athos (Armand d’Athos) - born 1615 joined the musketeers at age 25, died in a duel in 1643. D’Artagnan(Comte d’Artagnan) -