Impact of the Black Death - Timewatch - BBC

[kimair99]

homework suck when u have to watch this

[otherFlawliet]

@QuantumQuacks ok ok you're right I guess - I'm off now - GCSE homework to complete...

[vaironxxrd]

For what i Review the black death came from fleas which came from rats. ( at the time) Am i correct?

[Zzozze]

@vaironxxrd I've been always told so too. Just now, I'm beginning to have some doubt :(

For example: the mountainous area where I live, had been dramatically depopulated by the plague, but we don't have any rats!

[InsideDating]

Lol it's James Woods. He was great on Family Guy

[otherFlawliet]

though tragic at the time, in a way it may be a good thing for us now that so many people died - our world is overpopulated as it is, and withot the plague there would be a lot more of us today

[bullaman23]

@otherFlawliet ever seen a movie called rampage? there lies your answer

[hollium]

@otherFlawliet and it kind of created the middle class in the UK. If it hadn't we would have been like pre-revolution Russia with serfs and aristocrats.

[sashamaz]

@otherFlawliet lol overpopulated, go to Russia/Africa and see how empty it is

[otherFlawliet]

well actually there are too many people as it is - there are around 6,868,400,000 in the world. Think how many mouths that is to feed, how many homes are needed to accomodate these people, how much medicine and care is needed. Quite a lot I should think.

[sashamaz]

@otherFlawliet most of those people are concentrated in certain parts of the world but since you're so keen of reducing the world population you better set an example and let everyone else follow.

[No3Patriot]

Just think, there would be a lot more people living today without the Black Death.

Instead of having 6,697,254,041people, we would have closer to 7 billion.

[FinnishFuturist]

@No3Patriot i think WAAAY more than that...

[jagjagin]

lol thats what you get for not being more sanitary. 

[Herimia]

if it wasn't for the black death more Caucasians would probably be living in the new world and Australia would have been colonized much earlier by a variety of european nations. primarily because of overcrowding.

[jagjagin]

@Herimia so in Laymen's terms, you want more white ppl?

[Herimia]

@jagjagin no not rly just my theory on what the world would be like.

[FinnishFuturist]

@Herimia not at all. If Europeans didn't have the diseases like the black death when they arrived the in the new world natives wouldn't have died in such great numbers as a result of disease. They would have resisted fiercely and halted colonization

[flowerpower111]

@21min56secs good on you

[xiyuemaa]

@21min56secs ur my hero

[Shadownes]

@21min56secs Then I can guess, you never were the fist view. So you kinda fail x)

[S0NICM0US3]

@21min56secs first one to remove all doubt about their idiocracy