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The article "Like Black Smoke" and the article "A World Turned Upside Down" both mainly discuss about a horrible and deadly diseas called the bubonic plague. Like "A World Turned Upside Down" the author is mainly describing how black death swept through and has effected Europe and changed everything in the old times. In the article "Like Black Smoke" the author is telling how the black death spread, where it came from, and where it traveled.
"Like Black Smoke" was to explain how the bubonic plague spread, where it came from, and where it traveled too. For example it spread to the east and it started from fleas. Similarity to both articles is that their purpose was how it effected both areas, killed millions of people, and traveled eastward. In contrast the article "A World Turned Upside Down" gives facts on the population, what it was like in the middle ages, and how people had to adapt to the black plague.
In "A World Turned Upside Down" the author Christopher Hill is describing what happened in the mid ages in Europe and showing the relations between rich classes and poor classes during the plague. In addition to that it describes how people tried to survive it and how everything changed during that time. "Like Black Smoke" the author Diana Childress takes a look at the spread Black Death, which struck in Europe in the middle ages. The disease transfers from fleas, to rodents, then to humans. It spread to the east causing millions of deaths. Likewise, both articles have the main idea about discussing the black death.
"Like Black Smoke" it is chronological order because it is out into sections that are ordered on how the black death was formed. For example, it started with where it came from, fleas, then it went onto how it effected people, then to how people survived it, and lastly where it spread too, the east. "A World Turned Upside Down" it's organization is cause and effect. For example when something happened during the black death there was always an effect to it.
In conclusion, "Like Black Smoke" and the article "A World Turned Upside Down" is that their purpose was how it effected both areas, killed millions of people, and traveled eastward. Also both articles have the main idea about discussing the black death. Both were set up in a type of organization to understand the articles better and how everything was caused. Finally they were both used in the middle ages in Europe and talked about the deadly bubonic plague.