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Subido el 29 de noviembre de 2020 por Alicia M.

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Despite being one of the most exciting and rich periods in history, the Middle Ages were 00:00:06
a tough time to live in. 00:00:11
Among other horrible things, that time period experienced a plague that wiped out 75 million 00:00:12
folks across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, high infant mortality, famine, and battles. 00:00:17
Add to that a social infrastructure that was frankly shocking, and zero social welfare. 00:00:23
But just how dangerous was it to live in the Middle Ages, and what would your chances be 00:00:28
of actually surviving the period? 00:00:32
That's what we'll find out today, in this episode of the Infographics Show, Most Common 00:00:34
Ways People Died in the Middle Ages. 00:00:38
The Middle Ages, or Medieval Period, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. 00:00:40
It began with the fall of the Roman Empire and led into the Renaissance and Age of Discovery. 00:00:45
This period predates the discovery of penicillin and germ theory, meaning that death by disease 00:00:50
was a common occurrence among medieval people. 00:00:55
health conditions and malnutrition added to the problem. 00:00:58
Diseases and conditions common to the period were dysentery, gonorrhea, influenza, leprosy, 00:01:02
malaria, measles, smallpox, typhoid, and puerperal fever. 00:01:08
In the Prussian town of Elbing in August 1349, the Black Death was first recorded, and this 00:01:13
terrible illness has long been associated with death in the Middle Ages. 00:01:18
Studies have shown that people around this period had a life expectancy somewhere in 00:01:22
the 30-40s. 00:01:26
That piece of data is, according to some sources, misleading, as the life expectancy rate was 00:01:28
dragged down significantly by the high infant mortality rate caused by death at childbirth 00:01:33
and disease in infancy. 00:01:39
Many people did in fact live to 60 or 70 years of age or older during the Middle Ages. 00:01:40
Enrico Dandolo became the Doge of Venice at the age of 85 and died old and blind at 98 00:01:46
in the year 1205. 00:01:53
However, death by childbirth was a serious problem as hygiene was yet to be fully understood. 00:01:54
Both the rich and poor died in childbirth, queens often died while giving birth to future 00:02:00
princes and princesses, thus greatly affecting lines of inheritance and courses of history. 00:02:05
Richer families could usually afford to hire a wet nurse if the mother died during childbirth, 00:02:11
but peasant families were forced to be more inventive by soaking bread in milk for the 00:02:15
infant to ingest, or even soaking a rag in milk and letting the child suckle from the 00:02:20
rag. 00:02:25
Death arrived to children in the shape of germs and viruses that people in the middle 00:02:26
ages had no idea led to disease, having had no knowledge of germ theory. 00:02:29
There were no antibiotics or vaccines to protect the most vulnerable members of society, the 00:02:34
very old and the very young. 00:02:39
The death rate for children was horrendously high, and to survive birth and infancy put 00:02:41
one in good stead for the pursuant obstacles this tough period in history brought. 00:02:46
Poor medical care, weak immune systems, infectious diseases, and hunger killed countless of people 00:02:51
during the Middle Ages, but perhaps no event was as undeniably devastating as the Black 00:02:57
Death. 00:03:03
One-third of the population of Europe between 1347 and 1352 were wiped out by bubonic and 00:03:04
pneumonic plagues that ravaged the region. 00:03:10
This outbreak was probably the most deadly force, the most tragic pandemic event to have 00:03:13
swept through a populated region, killing at least 75 million people throughout Europe, 00:03:18
Northern Africa, and the Middle East. 00:03:23
If we factor in that the population of Europe was thought to be around 70 million in 1350, 00:03:25
then yes, the plague was responsible for a huge number of deaths, and if we were living 00:03:30
at that time in Europe, many of us would have become part of the estimated 50 percent of 00:03:34
Europe's population who fell victim to it. 00:03:39
And then there were those who died on the battlefield. 00:03:42
Hacked and cut with weapons, and with no means to properly clean infected wounds, soldiers 00:03:44
often led short, brutal lives. 00:03:49
However, casualties and medieval battles were often surprisingly light. 00:03:52
Once one side had lost 5-10% of their number, noblemen and officers were often held to ransom. 00:03:56
Many army casualties were slayed by disease, foodborne poisoning, and septicemia instead. 00:04:02
Amputations were not to be taken lightly, and many died from contamination and dirty 00:04:07
surgical instruments. 00:04:12
Anesthetic was unheard of, and if drinking enough alcohol wouldn't stop the screams, 00:04:13
you may have been knocked with a blow to the head instead. 00:04:18
Those higher-ranking officers, who were able to access the cutting-edge medical science 00:04:20
at the time, enjoyed leeches applied to wounds, or perhaps a course of bloodletting. 00:04:25
Traveling was no picnic either. 00:04:30
Finding a safe place to stop while traveling was troublesome, and folks often had to resort 00:04:32
to sleeping out in the open, running a risk of freezing to death in the winter or being 00:04:36
robbed or killed on the road. 00:04:41
Food was also hard to come by on the road, and the traveler was often forced to forage, 00:04:43
steal, or go without. 00:04:47
Lack of foreign languages could be problematic, and travelers may find themselves caught up 00:04:48
in local disputes or battles. 00:04:52
And things weren't much better at sea. 00:04:54
While it was faster to travel by sea, boarding a vessel put the traveler at risk of sudden 00:04:56
storms or shoddy navigation. 00:05:01
The ships themselves weren't particularly safe until later in the Middle Ages, but on 00:05:03
land or at sea, life certainly wasn't a breeze during this fascinating period of history. 00:05:07
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So what do you think? 00:05:51
What would your chances of living to a wise old age in the middle ages be? 00:05:52
What were some of the other brutal periods of history to live through? 00:05:56
Let us know your thoughts in the comments! 00:05:58
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