Brian Toh Mr. Smith English 2 Honors 13 October 2014 Shrew Search 1. Black Death Summary: The Black Death‚ or the Bubonic Plague‚ surfaced in Europe in the 1300s and persisted into the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries during the Elizabethan era when Shakespeare lived. The plague was the most devastating disease in that era‚ killing more than 20 million people‚ or almost one-third of Europe’s population. It was brought to Europe through trading ships‚ specifically 12 Genoese trading ships
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fight to stay alive. You’re thinking why is this happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. In five short years‚ the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the populations it encountered. So how different were the Christian and Muslim responses? In 1348 Christians who were followers of Jesus Christ and Muslims who followed the teachings of Muhammad came face to face with the Black Death. In truth‚ Muslims and Christians responded in many different ways. Even the way the blamed others
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happening to me? That is how the victims of the Black Death felt. The Black Death had many different effects on the people of the Middle Ages. To understand the severity of this tragic epidemic you must realize a few things about the plague. You should know what the Black Death is‚ the cause of the plague‚ the symptoms‚ the different effects it had on the people‚ and the preventions and cures for the plague. The Black Death‚ also known as the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague‚ which struck
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The Black Death The Black Death almost wiped out all of Western Europe. The Black Death was carried by flea infested rat. These rats came from ships coming from Asia. The rats thrived in the filthy streets of Western Europe. The Black Death killed 1/3 of Western Europe’s population. Although the Black Death devastated Western Europe it also had many benefits such as higher wages for peasants‚ job opportunities for women‚ and innovations in the work place. One of the benefits of the Black
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The Black Death is one of the most deadly epidemics in human history‚ and is taught in schools throughout the world. Though it is most known to have killed 50 million people in Europe it also ravaged Asia killing 25 million people. The Black Death is a type of plague called the Bubonic plague. Encyclopedia Britannica defines the Bubonic plague as‚ “an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Bubonic plague is the most commonly occurring type of plague and is characterized by the
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Benedictow‚ Ole J. "The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever." History Today. 01 Mar. 2005: 42. eLibrary. Web. 11 Dec. 2015. This website told me how people could catch the Black Death. It says that people did very little to help but some people helped carry and bury dead bodies. That was a major hazard though. The disease still lived on dead people‚ so even just touching a dead body could get yourself killed. This website was very good because it gave you
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the plague. To explain that the plague was caused fleas on rats is that the fleas carried the disease that infected rats‚ and then the rats infected the humans. The plague spread through trade routes. The non-religious explanations of the black death in Europe were impure air and outrageous fashion. They also had preventions‚ in Europe they covered windows with cloth‚ filled their houses with flowers and sweet smelling plants. The Near East side’s explanations were warm ovens‚ stench of bodies
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Baccaccio Describes Black Death Around the 12 ro 1300s‚ Europe and Chinas population took a major hit in decreation following what is now called Black Death. Black Death killed millions when it hit Countries and was one of the most devasating plagues of time‚ dropping Chinas population from 123 million to 65 million and Europes from 70 million to 45 million. In 1348 Giovanni Boccaccio decsribes what Black Death did to the lives of those who were infected in Flourence. Black Death; started with boils
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The Black Death wreaked havoc across most of medieval Europe for nearly a decade. While in the modern age‚ we know that the disease originated from fleas carried on the backs of rats‚ the cause of the pandemic remained completely unknown to the people of Europe from a period between 1346 and 1353 AD. As the Europeans were overwhelmingly Catholic at the time‚ a historian can make the argument that Europeans believed that the Black Death was
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The Black Death or the bubonic plague was one of the most deadly disease of our time. The Black Death took place between 1348 and 1351. It killed about one third to one half of the population in Europe. It only liked warm weather; therefore it would die out in the winter‚ but come back strong in the summer. When it would infect a victim it would only take a matter of days to kill him or her. The Black Death would kill so many people so fast that they would dig big pits and put all the dead in a hole
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