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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 Black Death‚ also known as the Black Plague‚ or the Bubonic Plague killed one third of the population of Europe during its reign in the 13th and 14th centuries. The arrival of this plague set the scene for years of strife and heroism. Leaving the social and Economic aspect in a standstill. The phantom of death became a subject of art‚ music and folklore and it influenced the consciousness of the people. The impact of this mass killer caused enormous chaos and havoc to the medieval society

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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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    he Black Death‚ the black plague was a horrible disease In the middle ages. it’s a medieval black plague that is a bacterium that is transmitted to human from infected rats and fleas it started when the fleas bit the rats and the fleas would go the bit the humans.Rats would get on the ships when the people were running from the disease. “When the people were getting on the ships the captains we’re all dead and the people who were not dead was very ill‚ and couldn’t hold down food. They were covered

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    where the transportation of the plague would come to play. As the rodents feasted on the waste‚ the plague-infested fleas would jump to the nearest passerby. "The most devastating to England was the bubonic plague. Also known as‚ ""The Black Death"‚ because of the black spots

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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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    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

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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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    many couldn’t afford it or they did not believe in doctors because they believed they were evil. During this period of time due to the lack of hygiene and a proper system like today’s world this caused many diseases including even plague causing the emerges of the plague doctors and their believes. Also women of this era did not have the advantage has we do in today’s world in taking care of ourselves… a mid-wife was the closest women

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    helped them transfer the plague from civilian to civilian (Peppas 6). Furthermore‚ fleas would hide in rats fur and they could jump up to six feet which helped them get on the human body (9). Over a 100 different species of fleas could inject the disease into humans which was a major problem because people didn’t know where the disease was coming from‚ and this caused the many different pests to be unnoticed (8).The unsanitary conditions in every village helped the plague spread rapidly. It spread

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