Age Of Adversity Essay
Vann White
Western Civ
Tuesday 7-930 D. Ricci
"Age of Adversity"
The age of adversity was called that for a reason. To begin there were serious effects on life, economy, politics, etc and caused great adversity to almost everyone from rich to poor. To start there was severe weather that impacted things like harvest and agriculture. The economy is effected by this because farmers, land owners, cattle owners, and so, loose money, product, and the economy goes down. It was considered the " Little Ice Age" because most of the Northern Hemisphere in United States and Europe was freezing cold for a long time. With this harsh weather also came health and famine because of lack of food and other things. Most of the population of …show more content…
Europe had to migrate and were forced to be homeless. They didn't have a choice, it was either stay in the freezing weather with no food, horrible shelter if so, or migrate and become homeless to survive.
Imagine living in these harsh weathers of freezing cold temperatures with no sufficient housing, food, sick, and so on. The word adversity seems to mild, more like a cold hell. Besides the weather, Europe was plagued with diseases a couple of times. The first was the Typhoid fever that started amongst animals like cattle. The disease could be spread by the animal into the human and then spread from human to human. There was a massive outbreak and there was little that could be done. Considering that it was freezing temperatures, little food, little shelter, and not to much medically that could be done the disease was hard to stop and treat. So with all that came another big hit called the Bubonic Plague (1348-1351) swept across Europe. Now there was two different types of the bubonic plague mumonic and bubonic. Mumomic was caught by humans, either from exposure such as coughing, or blood contact. Then there was the bubonic plague which was caught by a flee that would hop from a rat to human. It was believed that these rats had come on a ship and ported in Europe and before the Turks could stop the rats from coming aboard the shipped hit the docks and rats spread.
From there on they made there way up through the middle of Europe and spread through out with nothing stopping them. This disease managed to take out 1/3 of the population of Europe. Since the population had risen in the past couple of years, the disease spread quickly throughout. There wasn't much medically at the time that could be done. The most that could be done was to lance the boil and drain the fluid and stop the infection from spreading. Other than this method there wasn't much at all because penicillin wasn't invented until hundreds of years later. After these two diseases passed through Europe, they had sort of a ripple effect on everything else. There was a break down of law and order, and morality of the people ran low cause of all this. At this point there is where cults evolved. Some people were convinced that they were cursed or their God was mad so this was their way of being punished. Violence erupted everywhere, violent crimes, theft, and so on. There was so much dispare and death that people where scapegoating other. They were finding people to blame for all their bad luck like the Jews, and witches. There was some positive aspects of the disease and weather that struck Europe. There was a positive question on religion and wether God existed. There was the study of anatomy that erupted and the study of more sciences and medicines. People wanted to learn more and study more so that if this happened again maybe they could have the upper hand. Now besides disease and the weather there was war. Do be precise, the 100 years war between England and France was a huge downer for England. There was two positive aspects which were Patriotism and the fact that Frances modern government was being formed. Frances ultimate success comes from the actions of a peasant girl named Joan of Arc who lead them to Victory. She only lived to be 19 years old but it was of the greatest warriors in history and the greatest of French history. There was other adversities that were faced but these were the biggest in Europe and there was some positive things to come out of it also.
Western Civ
Tuesday 7-930 D. Ricci
"Age of Adversity"
The age of adversity was called that for a reason. To begin there were serious effects on life, economy, politics, etc and caused great adversity to almost everyone from rich to poor. To start there was severe weather that impacted things like harvest and agriculture. The economy is effected by this because farmers, land owners, cattle owners, and so, loose money, product, and the economy goes down. It was considered the " Little Ice Age" because most of the Northern Hemisphere in United States and Europe was freezing cold for a long time. With this harsh weather also came health and famine because of lack of food and other things. Most of the population of …show more content…
Europe had to migrate and were forced to be homeless. They didn't have a choice, it was either stay in the freezing weather with no food, horrible shelter if so, or migrate and become homeless to survive.
Imagine living in these harsh weathers of freezing cold temperatures with no sufficient housing, food, sick, and so on. The word adversity seems to mild, more like a cold hell. Besides the weather, Europe was plagued with diseases a couple of times. The first was the Typhoid fever that started amongst animals like cattle. The disease could be spread by the animal into the human and then spread from human to human. There was a massive outbreak and there was little that could be done. Considering that it was freezing temperatures, little food, little shelter, and not to much medically that could be done the disease was hard to stop and treat. So with all that came another big hit called the Bubonic Plague (1348-1351) swept across Europe. Now there was two different types of the bubonic plague mumonic and bubonic. Mumomic was caught by humans, either from exposure such as coughing, or blood contact. Then there was the bubonic plague which was caught by a flee that would hop from a rat to human. It was believed that these rats had come on a ship and ported in Europe and before the Turks could stop the rats from coming aboard the shipped hit the docks and rats spread.
From there on they made there way up through the middle of Europe and spread through out with nothing stopping them. This disease managed to take out 1/3 of the population of Europe. Since the population had risen in the past couple of years, the disease spread quickly throughout. There wasn't much medically at the time that could be done. The most that could be done was to lance the boil and drain the fluid and stop the infection from spreading. Other than this method there wasn't much at all because penicillin wasn't invented until hundreds of years later. After these two diseases passed through Europe, they had sort of a ripple effect on everything else. There was a break down of law and order, and morality of the people ran low cause of all this. At this point there is where cults evolved. Some people were convinced that they were cursed or their God was mad so this was their way of being punished. Violence erupted everywhere, violent crimes, theft, and so on. There was so much dispare and death that people where scapegoating other. They were finding people to blame for all their bad luck like the Jews, and witches. There was some positive aspects of the disease and weather that struck Europe. There was a positive question on religion and wether God existed. There was the study of anatomy that erupted and the study of more sciences and medicines. People wanted to learn more and study more so that if this happened again maybe they could have the upper hand. Now besides disease and the weather there was war. Do be precise, the 100 years war between England and France was a huge downer for England. There was two positive aspects which were Patriotism and the fact that Frances modern government was being formed. Frances ultimate success comes from the actions of a peasant girl named Joan of Arc who lead them to Victory. She only lived to be 19 years old but it was of the greatest warriors in history and the greatest of French history. There was other adversities that were faced but these were the biggest in Europe and there was some positive things to come out of it also.