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    woman about treatments. A barber would perform dental or bloodletting procedures. A barber surgeon could perform a wide range of procedures. A wise woman would treat the poor people or people who couldn’t get to a barbershop. Art was influenced by the plague. With drawings called danse macabre depicted the cause of Black Death as people being taken away by skeletons. With an analysis of primary and secondary sources‚ the cures for the Black Death were very unusual. for instance‚ “bloodletting was believed

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    Meaningful Image For my meaningful image‚ I chose the plague on the firstborn from Exodus 11-12. Exodus 11-12 describes the plague on the firstborn which the lord casts upon the people of Egypt. It depicts the celebration of the Passover and the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. However‚ the means to this end are also depicted‚ those means being the death of every firstborn in Egypt "…from the firstborn son of Pharaoh‚ who sits on the throne‚ to the firstborn son of the slave girl‚

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    Central Asia and Europe in only a few years‚ around 75 million people fell victim to the plague Scientists discovered that the bacterium to blame was called Yersinia pestis. Yersinia originated from one of its founders – Swiss microbiologist Alexandre-Émile-John Yersin‚ and pestis being Latin for plague or pestilence. How it Spread At the time of the Black Death‚ it was unknown what the cause of the plague was. Then it was later discovered that rodents‚ or more so the flees are responsible. More

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    In Elizabethan times‚ living conditions of an everyday townsman was quite indecent. Elizabethan ’s lived in houses that were extremely close to one another‚ which made it quite easy to disregard such a necessity to keep the streets and living surroundings clean. People threw all of the waste outside of their windows‚ which included‚ their feces‚ dead cats and dogs‚ and also kitchen waste. Eventually‚ when it would rain‚ the rain would wash all of the rancid waste into local waters. There were

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    Black Death. During the 1300’s the Asian and Muslim worlds were both infested with the bubonic plague- a deadly disease that wiped out almost one-third of Europe’s population. In art‚ the time period of the bubonic plague appropriately depicts death as a skeleton on horseback who uses a scythe to cut people down. It is an image we have come to know and recognize today as the Grim Reaper. The plague began in Asia‚ traveling from Asia and infecting most of the Muslim world‚ it spread all the way

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    The plague‚ or Black Death‚ as it became known‚ was a devastating disease that killed approximately 19-38 million people in the 1300’s. At first‚ it was thought to have traveled from the Silk Road‚ but actually came from trade ships returning from China. At the height of the Middle Ages‚ the Black Death spread quickly across Europe and Asia. Researchers believe that the plague began first in China and was carried by fleas‚ which then infected rats. During the Middle Ages‚ rats were in large numbers

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    the bubonic plague that had arrived at their city. After this‚ a village leader called Ulrich came with his army‚ which’s members were Wolfstan‚ Hob‚ and Dalyway‚ to tell the monks that they’re going to investigate about a village that didn’t have the Bubonic Plague‚ so they needed someone to guide them‚ because they wanted to know why the village didn’t have the bubonic plague. This lets the viewers understand that the Middle Ages were dark because there

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    “A Journal of the Plague Year Writing Assignment” If I were to live in London during the plague‚ I would say that every day would be depressing and desperate because you have no idea if there will be a cure or recovery and also crazy because of the stress that the disease has caused and because of the grief of the people who lost loved ones. The plague was a terrible and ugly disease that had a great impact in the world and unfortunately‚ it killed tons and tons of people. Maybe somebody in

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    The Bubonic Plague was a major disease that evolved during the Middle Ages and spread across sections of Asia‚ Northern Africa‚ and Europe. This disease was also given the title of the Black Death because of how fatal it was and the deadly symptoms one contracted through it. The plague was transmitted from fleas containing bacteria that were carried by rats‚ to humans. Moreover‚ the Black Death killed millions of citizens and completely changed the society of 14th century Europe. As time goes on‚ the

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    disease. People called it the Bubonic Plague or “Black Death”. Many people were affected because of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague or “Black Death” was a disadvantage. The people that were infected had symptoms because of the disease. In Document 1‚ it said that the Bubonic Plague began in (Europe) Italy. It started approximately in 1348‚ and it took 2 years for the plague to spread. The Bubonic Plague travelled East to West. The Bubonic Plague was fleas that were on rodents and it

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