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    If the Black Plague never happened everything would change‚ and the world today would not be the same. The Black Plague made a huge impact on the world we know today‚ If it never had occurred‚ England and Europe may still be having a problem with overpopulation and whined up crashing. The Black Plague led to multiple scientific inventions‚ specifically in farming machinery‚ and also furthered education in medicine and science. If the Black Plague never occurred then the society‚ economy‚ and population

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    What was the Bubonic Plague and what made the disease spread so far‚ so rapidly and kill millions of people. How did the Bubonic Plague affect Europe? The Plague vastly affected millions of lives in Europe‚ but it also affected millions of lives around the globe. The Plague is still‚ up to current date one of the largest disease outbreaks in recorded history. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that originated in Turkey in 1347. It was caused by the fleas that lived on rats. The fleas have a bad

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    Death The Black Death‚ a pestilence of despair and darkness‚ ravaged Western Europe from 1348-1350. The Black Death is also known as the “Black Plague” or “Bubonic Plague”‚ as the main symptoms of the plague were the blackening of the buboes‚ or‚ bubbles on the skin. However‚ despite all the dark thoughts‚ there was a revolution within the plague that gave Medieval Europe hope for a better future. This was due to the fact that the Black Death affected the society of the time in numerous ways

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    Causes and Effects of the Extent of the Black Death The Bubonic Plague started in Europe in the fourteenth century. The plague had wiped out nearly one third of the population and did not single anyone out‚ regardless of age‚ gender‚ or religion. All of this occurred as a result of a single fleabite. Bubonic Plague also known as Black Death started in Asia and traveled to Europe by ships. The Bubonic Plague was an infectious disease spread by fleas living on rats which would attached themselves

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    The black death of the middle ages is today known as the bubonic plague. There have been three major outbreaks of the Black Death throughout history; the first outbreak was the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century‚ which Justinian survived. The second outbreak occurred in the fourteenth century‚ and killed approximately one-third of the human population at the time. The third outbreak of plague began in the mid-nineteenth century‚ and remained active until 1959 according to the World Health

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    The plague was an event in Europe that totally transformed European society and restructured the economy through necessity as there was simply no other option for returning to the former way of life after all of the deaths associated with the plague. Following the plague‚ extreme inflation emerged because of the difficulty associated with the procurement of goods through trade as well as the inability for goods to be consistently produced‚ which resulted in high inflated prices for goods throughout

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    The Black Plague killed more than 20 million people that was about one-third of the population in Europe at that time. During the late 1340’s in Europe‚ 12 trading ships arrived at a port after a long journey through the Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to welcome the ships were met with a horrifying surprise: most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead‚ and those who were still alive were very ill. Strangest of all‚ they were covered in mysterious black blisters that oozed blood

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    How did the Plague impact Feudal Europe? The plague was one of the most horrific pandemics in human history. It was an infectious disease that was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis. The plague has killed 75 to 200 million people. It was either infectious through breathing around someone who was infected‚ or by direct contact. The plague created a series of religious‚ social and economic disturbances‚ as well as affect the course of European history. The plague hit religious communities

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    The Plague Today’s society is filled to the brim with terror and uncertainty of what tomorrow may bring knocking on their front door. Sickness or even death‚ perhaps? England is hidden in the cloak of sickness known as the Black Death and no matter how hard people try to escape from its folds‚ no one is safe from this plague. In a panic‚ healthy people have done all they can to avoid this sickness. The doctors refuse to see patients; the priests refuse to administer last rites. Shopkeepers have

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    world as we know it fell apart? What would you do if you had to fend for yourself without any government‚ while people are dying around you? Stephen R. Quinn had to face these conflicts everyday in the book‚ “The Eleventh Plague” by Jeff Hirsch. Stephen fought through the plague‚ while many people around him perished. He had to learn to live without his grandfather and eventually his father‚ while trying to help rebuild civilization. The book begins with a moment where Stephen had to relive an important

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