Analissa Sanchez World History AP – 8 November 28‚ 2011 The Black Death was known as a very fatal disease that struck many locations and wiped out many countries and cities. The Black Death took the lives of almost 1/3 of the population. It all started by infection from fleas on rats‚ but the Christians and Muslims see it differently. Not only did the responses of the Christians and the Muslims differentiate by the way they responded to the plague‚ but also the non-religious causes. While the
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was too bright to stand. Within a day or two‚ the swellings appeared. They were hard‚ painful‚ burning lumps on their neck‚ under their arms‚ on their inner thighs. Soon they turned black‚ split open‚ and began to ooze pus and blood. They may have grown to the size of an orange. These are the symptoms of the Black Death‚ one of the most devastating pandemics in human history‚ peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague‚ and during those
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Renaissance period and carried on through the whole 18th century. It began in Europe and influenced the way of nature and society. The Scientific Revolution was an emergence of modern science‚ which was enlightenment from the scientific ignorance of the Middle Ages. There were many achievements during this revolution‚ but the major ones included advances in medicine‚ astronomy‚ and chemistry. Scholars from all different fields made history-breaking achievements that affect and influence the modern world today
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The Middle Ages was a time of rebirth for the Church. The Church had a growing amount of power‚ and used this power to get messages sent to its followers. One important message created an ever-growing distance between believes and nonbelievers of the Church. Throughout the Middle Ages there have been inconsistencies with the doctrines and actions of the Church. There is one constant within the Church‚ throughout the Middle Ages the Church has opposed outsiders and has mistreated those outsiders from
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Religious Reform in the Middle Ages During the middle ages there had been much controversy circling around religion‚ mainly around the Catholic Church. Many people felt trapped within the church‚ which sparked many religious ideologists to seek ways around the Catholic beliefs‚ and still have a relationship with God. During this age a new religion began to emerge from the Catholic faith‚ Protestantism‚ which sparked much controversy for many people living in Europe at the time. This era brought
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The High Middle Ages brought forth an era fill with Christian followers. When the northern tribes in Europe swept down and brought down the Roman empire‚ they settle in the Roman land and converted themselves to Christianity. These changes brought forth new cultures and artworks that puts more emphasis on religion. During this period‚ a lot of churches and great cathedral was build. Historian divided the High Middle Ages into two periods: the Romanesque Period and the Gothic Period. The Romanesque
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The Middle Class Black’s Burden Leanita McClain‚ an African American journalist‚ was greatly acknowledge as a black African American middle class success. McClain was condemned by her own peers and was pated on the head by whites who believed her success was only based on talent than affirmative action . Due to prejudice whites and berate blacks‚ Leanita was forced to choose between the envy of her own race or for her own amentities. In McClain’s essay‚ "The Middle Class Black’s Burden
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sight of a black bubble in a person’s skin could scare someone at least a little‚ or the terrible aches and pains brought about by a disease which no one in the region had heard about or had the slightest idea of a cure for could be a bit frightening. Just as it was during the 14th thru 16th centuries in Western Europe and just as it is today‚ death was and still is a big thing to fear. Thus‚ this epidemic that killed one third of Western Europe’s population got to be known as the Black Death‚ and people
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usual not the case‚ usually the center group tells about the perceived threat that the other groups present. This goes all the way back to the Middle Ages‚ were the center group at the time told or believed in the perceived threat of groups like the Lepers‚ Jews‚ Sodomites‚ Prostitutes‚ and Heretics. One could see that the center group in the Middle Ages perceived the Lepers as threat. The reason they may have been seen as a threat by the center group because they were different‚ they lived their
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The black plague: The black plague also known as the black death started in the years 1346-1353 leading in the deaths of 75 to 200 million deaths‚ almost a third of the population. The black plague is also known as the black death because‚ of the dark patches on the skin caused by subcutaneous bleeding. The black plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. A deadly epidemic known as the Sixth-Century Plague or Justinian’s plague struck Constantinople and parts of southern Europe
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