Argumentative Essay On The Black Death
Rob Roemer
Mr. Killoran
World History
Period 1
March 1, 2017
The Black Death
Introduction:
In all of history, people in the world have overcome some pretty devastating things in their lives. For example, people have had to overcome death, disease, human rights, and many more things. However, none of these events have been as devastating as Epidemics. Epidemics spread the fear of people thinking the world would end even if it was going to not to. Epidemics however, do have the power of ending because they can very easily end the human race. The most feared of these epidemics is the Black Death because it was the most deadly. Many would argue that the Black Death was not the most devastating. They would argue that either the Spanish Flu or Smallpox …show more content…
It went around killing about anything it encountered, “If you sneezed on your daughter you just killed her”(History.com, “Black Death”). This plague “Broke out in 1347, when it infected Mongol soldiers”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and it “Originated in Asia after a series of storms, floods, and earthquakes”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). The plague was able to spread rapidly after the “Mongol General fled the city on bots and brought along 100 plague infected rats”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and thereby “delivering the Black Death to port after port”(Acocella, “The end of the World”). After the Mongols delivered the plague to port after port it was a walk in the park for the plague to spread throughout the world. Some of the places it spread through was “Italy and France”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and “by 1348 it had crossed the alps and made its way into England”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). It spread so rapidly that one year later it “had reached Scandinavia”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). The Black death was going to spread throughout the world no matter what and didt care what stood in its way. Now, since you know how it spread, you must know how it affected people. One way it did this was made people go crazy and “blame the jews”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). Symptoms and signs of the Black Death were buboes, these buboes were “hard extremely painful, swollen
Mr. Killoran
World History
Period 1
March 1, 2017
The Black Death
Introduction:
In all of history, people in the world have overcome some pretty devastating things in their lives. For example, people have had to overcome death, disease, human rights, and many more things. However, none of these events have been as devastating as Epidemics. Epidemics spread the fear of people thinking the world would end even if it was going to not to. Epidemics however, do have the power of ending because they can very easily end the human race. The most feared of these epidemics is the Black Death because it was the most deadly. Many would argue that the Black Death was not the most devastating. They would argue that either the Spanish Flu or Smallpox …show more content…
It went around killing about anything it encountered, “If you sneezed on your daughter you just killed her”(History.com, “Black Death”). This plague “Broke out in 1347, when it infected Mongol soldiers”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and it “Originated in Asia after a series of storms, floods, and earthquakes”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). The plague was able to spread rapidly after the “Mongol General fled the city on bots and brought along 100 plague infected rats”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and thereby “delivering the Black Death to port after port”(Acocella, “The end of the World”). After the Mongols delivered the plague to port after port it was a walk in the park for the plague to spread throughout the world. Some of the places it spread through was “Italy and France”(Acocella, “The End of the World”), and “by 1348 it had crossed the alps and made its way into England”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). It spread so rapidly that one year later it “had reached Scandinavia”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). The Black death was going to spread throughout the world no matter what and didt care what stood in its way. Now, since you know how it spread, you must know how it affected people. One way it did this was made people go crazy and “blame the jews”(Acocella, “The End of the World”). Symptoms and signs of the Black Death were buboes, these buboes were “hard extremely painful, swollen