What Caused The Plague Dbq Essay

The Black Death was a plague that wrecked havoc throughout Europe in the mid-14th century from 1347 and 1351. The plague caused fear throughout the people of Europe because in just four years, an estimated 25 million people were killed. Through that fear were the reactions that all humans have to stressing times, those reactions were to blame something else for the sickness, to avoid the sickness, and to explain the sickness. Some of Europe's people had the reaction of blame towards themselves and others. For the most part, the blaming had to do with religion. For some people, that was blaming god, some blamed the people who followed Jewish religion, and others blamed themselves for going against God's will.”Let all creation tremble with fear before the judgment of God. Let human frailty submit to its creator.” (de Mussis) this quote from “Historia de Morbo” shows how some of the people believed it was God that started the plague, and it was God's will for this plague to happen. …show more content…
“when people discovered that the stories of poisoning were undoubtedly true they rose as one against the Jews.” (Chronicle of Anti-Semitic persecutions) Not long after this rumor was spread, the people of Christian religion started burning the Jews “They were all burnt, apart from their babies who were taken from them by the citizens and baptized.” (Chronicle of Anti-Semitic persecutions) This shows how the Christians thought that if the babies grew up in their religion and not Jewish, they were no harm. It also shows that they were just blaming the men and women they burned based the fact that their religion was different, and not based off of who they were as