The Black Plague One of the most devastating pandemics in human history was The Black Death. It killed over 200 million people during the seven years from 1346 to 1353. People think that The Black Death originated from Central Asia and traveled with fleas and rodents on The Silk Road. The Black Death actually arrived in ships with sailors that were sick‚ had fever‚ unable to keep food down and had really bad pain but the scariest of them all was their body were covered with mysterious black boils
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The Black Death was an unfortunate human tragedy devastating Europe in the fourteenth century wiping out 65% of the population. (Pollard‚ 384) However‚ it transformed European society for the better. The Black Death marked the beginning of an era. It was the Black Plague that spurred an “outpouring of cultural achievement…” (Pollard‚ 402) and revived political and economic stability that would later be known as the Renaissance. (Carlisle) Originating in Asia‚ the Black Plague infected peoples from
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The Black Plague was an epidemic that swept across Europe in the fourteenth century. Symptoms include boils‚ fever‚ chills‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ and‚ in many cases‚ death. Scientists now know that it is spread by a bacterium called Yersina pestisthrough bites from infected fleas or rats. Between 1347 and 1352‚ about twenty five million people died from the Black Death. If an outbreak were to occur in Western Massachusetts in modern times‚ people would react differently than residents of medieval
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The Plague struck Europe in a series of waves beginning from the mid-1400s. During that time‚ people didn’t know the filth they lived in and the unsanitized streets caused the spread of the plague. It is estimated that the first wave killed 25 million people‚ which is about one third of the population of Western Europe. Sporadic but deadly outbreaks continued throughout Europe into the eighteenth century. The plague didn’t regard any status‚ age or even gender. During Plague there were also many
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Social effects by the Black Plague in Europe The black plague was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people. Peaking during the 14th century‚ no pandemic in the world had affected Europe so profoundly up until this point. The black plague changed European social structure in that it wiped out a third of Europe’s population‚ brought about a decline of feudalism‚ and crippled the Catholic Church. This plague will become a portent of change in European politics through
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Anna Hillot English The Rabbit-proof fence Capital Mr A.O. Neville‚ chief protector of aborigines -Also has the power to remove any aborigine in the state. During the 1930s‚ Molly‚ a 13 year- old aboriginal‚ is living in harsh‚ impoverished conditions with her family and other aborigines. Molly is outstandingly courageous‚ and is a great risk - taker. She lives in a hut made of twigs‚ logs and bramble also some grass‚with her cousin‚ Gracie‚ younger sister‚ Daisy with her Mother and Grandmother
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When Bubonic Plague visited England in 1348‚ it was called the Great Mortality. We know it as the Black Death that lasted until 1352 and killed vast populations in Asia ‚ North Africa ‚ Europe ‚ Iceland ‚ and Greenland . In total‚ it extinguished as much as fifty percent of the world’s population. In England ‚ bubonic plague on average killed at least one-third of all inhabitants between 1348 and 1349. In London alone‚ one out of two people died during the visitation. The bottom line is that
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most was the Black Death. The Black Death was a terrible disease because it killed nearly half of Europe’s population‚ was highly contagious‚ and extremely deadly. Shakespeare’s plays had a particularly important role in the plague‚ even though Shakespeare was alive almost 300 years after the largest outbreak of the Black Death. Shakespeare’s plays were really crowded.So crowded in fact‚ that they were “considered to be hotbeds for contagion”(Rasmussan and DeJong 7). Even though the Black Death was
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Per. 6 The Plague DBQ 1995 Beginning in the mid-fourteenth century‚ a plague swept the world like no other. It struck in a series of waves that continued into the eighteenth century. The first wave was estimated to have killed twenty-five million people‚ about a third of the Western Europe population at that time. Throughout the different outbreaks‚ the plague‚ also known as the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death‚ caused people to react in several ways. Some people believed the plague was a medical
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Adrianna Silerio Mr. Garcia AP European History‚ p. 6 24 September 2014 Plague – DBQ Prompt: Analyze the various responses to the outbreaks of plague from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Discuss the beliefs and concerns that these responses express. In the mid-fourteenth century of Europe‚ a deathly plague struck killing about 25 million people from a single fleabite. Once infected‚ a person would experience very high fevers‚ buboes‚ and die within a few days and it was an airborne
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