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    explain to you “The Black Death”‚ the name given to the plague breakout in Europe. In order for you to understand the plague in Europe‚ I must first inform you on plagues‚ in general. “Plague is a bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and their fleas‚” (National Geographic Society). There are three types of plague; bubonic‚ septicemic‚ and pneumonic. The bubonic plague is the plague I will be talking about in this essay. All three of these plagues are easily spread and painful. Symptoms include swellings

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    The Black Plague was one of the worst pandemics of Europe affecting one-third of the population. Caused by the bacillus Yersinia Pestis‚ the epidemic was carried through fleas and rats that accompanied Genoese ships. The first known outbreak in Europe started in 1346 and swept from the Mongol Empire to southern France and Spain. Street conditions and warm weather were ideal for the spread and made people more susceptible to the disease. Many physicians tried to come up with ways to prevent the disease

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    consequences of the Black Death included social‚ economic and political. The first cause of the Black Plague was people from Asia travelled to Europe. The people from Asia that travelled to Europe brought the Black Plague with them and it spread very quickly. The people were probably from Mongolia‚ they travelled through the Black Sea to Messina in Italy on October 1346. The second cause of the Black Plague was the cycle of fleas and rats. The cycle is fleas sucking the rats blood that carries bacteria

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    Why the Bubonic Plague was a Turning Point English contemporary observer Henry Knighton wrote‚ “In this year 1348 and in the following one there was a general mortality of people throughout the whole world.” This was the start of his account of the Black Death. Also known as the bubonic plague‚ this devastating disease quickly spread around Western Europe‚ killing many. It had several significant effects in the 14th century‚ most of them for the worse. Europe took a long time to recover from the

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    01.07 Collapse of an Empire Travel Journal 1. What was Justinian I’s role in the decline of the Byzantine Empire? First‚ his constant wars and the rebuilding of Constantinople after the Nika Riot caused serious financial problems for the empire. The reconstruction of the Hagia Sophia alone cost about 320‚000 pounds of gold. Second‚ Justinian left the Byzantine army scattered across the empire. Many units were occupied fighting fierce nomads. One of these groups‚ a Germanic barbarian tribe called

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    DBQ Essay From the late medieval era to the enlightenment a series of plagues devastated European society‚ economy‚ and social/political structure. In the Middle Ages‚ the Black Plague (or Death) was a pandemic that killed nearly 2/3 of the population in Europe‚ and lead to the downfall of the feudal system. The groups that benefited the most from the changes caused by the Black Death were peasants and laborers reaction toward the calamity ranged from rational and proactive to irrational‚ egoistic

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    Brooks points this out too in his novel that due the outbreak of the plague the people became rich‚Similarly Brooks shows us that the similar symptoms of the plague where the victom gets a wound first and then the infection spreads to the rest of the body. The plague could spread through a bite by any creature who was infected and the symptoms were the patient body used to get cold and the heart used to stop but the patient used to become aggressive and used to attack people‚ killing endless numbers

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    effect of starvation on the immune system. Because of the decreased state of health and energy‚ the immune system weakened too‚ which allowed the next major catastrophe to take greater effects‚ the plague. The Bubonic Plague went by many different names‚ the most common being the Bubonic Plague‚ the plague‚ the Black Death‚ or various other Latin words writers used to describe the

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    to endure and overcome. The largest reason why the 14th century coined this phrase was because of the black plague. Too many‚ the years of the black plague were the darkest days in Europe’s history. At first‚ the plague only attacked mice and rats. But due to the insanitary conditions of the 14th century‚ the virus mutated and a strain of the virus began attacking humans. The black plague was deadly and the normal person had a 80% mortality rate. The disease spread quickly throughout Europe due to

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    In an opinion piece entitled ‘Pigeon Plague in Our Cities’‚ Jo Bonella uses a broad range of persuasive techniques in an attempt to persuade readers to accept his contention that a new program to stop pigeon feeding is needed to deal with a growing “pigeon plague”. Bonella firstly builds a very negative view of pigeons‚ describing the presence of these “pests” as a “plague” and pointing out that they were imported into Australia long ago for specific purposes‚ planting in readers’ minds the idea

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