The Elizabethan Era Summary

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Summary: This website gives information about events that led to the disease that effected people in the Elizabethan Era. There are paragraphs about each topic containing information about different causes that could lead to a disease and describing how this could happen. They explained how each event such as child birth caused the diseases to happen weather it was due to environment or just catching a common cold or something and then developing from there. They give a brief range of when each disease was most common and who it effected it most. It explained what people did to try and prevent the disease. In the end many people died because of not having the right cure or enough knowledge to understand at the time what was going on.

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It helps to better comprehend what the disease was and how it started. The bigger the cases of the disease there was the article offered more information about it. Like about the Black Plague, how its started, when it was most common to happen, and how many people it killed in the time period. They explained very well the causes and effects of the sickness.

Evaluation: This article is a very useful source and is one of the best in the bibliography so far. It contains great reliable information on sicknesses in the Elizabethan Era. The way the website is ordered is great, the information is easy to locate. Its is well written and easy to comprehend.

Reflection: This source was extremely helpful with insight about the different and major sicknesses in this time period. Its helps more with knowing what were the main priorities in looking for cures. It changes everything with know how much time was spent in searching for ways to restore peoples health. Instead of putting a lot of time into looking for ways to make people better they should be looking for more ways to prevent it from
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It made thinking about the classes of people more differently. Its changed the argument that people got cared for when we really do not know if that was the case for everyone. People of the upper class still got sick even if it wasn't as bad as people that didn't have what the upper class people had, and they still could've been treated for their sickness last. It still happens the today.

Summary: This article/word document talks about the disease in the Elizabethan Era. Explaining how long or when the major outbreaks happened in the time period. There is also an explanation of how people tried different things to try and find a cure. There is also a paragraph explaining how people contracted the disease without even knowing that they could possibly be slowly killing themselves. How prostitution was a big part of contracting disease from people unknown to them. It overall explains what occurred in the era.

Evaluation: This is a useful source because the explanation in the article is more of a modern take and is easier to understand from a younger persons view. In realization about how many things people do can easily be connected to spreading sickness. The goal of this source is to be clear about what the causes and effects of peoples actions can do to them and

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