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    The destruction and devastation caused by the "Black Death" of the Middle Ages was a phenomenon left to wonder at in text books of historical Europe. An unstoppable plague swept the continent taking as much as eighty percent of the European population along with it (Forsyth). However‚ Today the world is plagued with a similar deadly disease. The AIDS epidemic continues to be incurable. In an essay written by David Herlihy‚ entitled "Bubonic Plague: Historical Epidemiology and the Medical

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    Before the 1500s the people of London went on many conquests in which they appointed Westminster as their center for control for government. London was one of the U. K.’s largest cities. Many events transpired in London in the 1500s including the Black Death diminishing their population by a great deal. London did rebuild their population after the plague only to be struck again in the 1600s by the Great Fire. London was the town that the Globe Theatre was‚ which is the theatre that Shakespeare’s troop

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    catastrophic events happened. The three events included the Black Death‚ Great Schism‚ and Hundred Years War. These three events changed the arts and culture of Europe drastically. Even though the 14th century was a great time for Europe‚ this time period was also quickly given another name. It became known as the “Crisis of the Late Middle Ages”. First of the three devastating events was the Black Death‚ otherwise known as the Black Plague. Around the 1340s the Plague came and put a stop to any

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    to 30% of those infected‚ including 80% of the children under 5 years of age‚ died from the disease‚ and one third of the survivors became blind.  As for the Americas‚ after the first contacts with Europeans and Africans‚ some believe that the death of 90 to 95 percent of the native population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases. It is suspected that smallpox was the chief culprit and responsible for killing nearly all of the native inhabitants of the Americas. In Mexico‚ when the

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    “The size of Europe Population was around eighty million and it decrease to fifty million after the black plague had hit (Ole J. Bendeictow)”. With the black plague taking reducing the population it caused Europe fifty years to recover from their loss. The importance of the Europe’s population decline from the black plague it resulted in a better and cheaper value on the labour. In 1381 it was followed right after that value to increase it caused the peasants to revolt and the farming to change.

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    patronage. In the middle of the black death‚ his stepmother died and shortly afterwards his father died as well. This caused Boccaccio to have an active role as head of the

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    forming a joint-stock company with his actors meaning he took a share in the company’s profits‚ as well as earning a fee for each play he wrote. Shakespeare’s death is a mystery but the life expectancy back them was lower than us so he died quite old. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME Bubonic Plague also known as the Black Death was a very deadly disease that was carried in rats and fleas‚ which lived on the rats. The disease spread very quickly and it killed millions of people. The

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    University of Phoenix Material Reformation Time Line and Journal Entries Part 1: Time Line Complete the time line identifying events in history during the Reformation. Identify where the event occurred on the specified date Describe the event and its significance for each date identified on the time line. DATE: October 31‚ 1517 Example: DESCRIPTION: The 95 Thesis was Martin Luther’s response to the indulgences. WHERE: The door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg DATE: May 25

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    it started with the fall of the roman empire. The dark ages are also commonly known. This was the beginning of the middle ages. The middle ages have had a huge impact on things we do today. The black plague is probably the most known wide spread diseases of all time. It is also known as the black death. This was one of the most devastating

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    having some of the largets cities in the region. Event: The Black Death was a disease that effected more than half of western Europeans. Out of that bunch‚ a whole third of them died. This disease causes boils to occur and black blotches on their skin‚ and death usually came within a few days. The importance of this is dramatic because without this event there would be more people on the earth than there are today. The Black Death also triggered social changes because survivors of the disease

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