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    Black Death was a disease that hit Europe in 1346-1353. The disease is considered to be the most devastating plague in Europe of all time, with at least 75 million people deceased. Not only did the Black Death kill millions of people, but it also had many effects on Western Europe. The three most important effects the Black Death had on Western Europe were the Jews being blamed for the plague outbreak, relationships between the people and the Church changing, and the many advancements that were…

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    millions today and still does. Shakespeare was a play write and poetry master. Today his work is like a puzzle because of how long ago it was. Instead of the technology we have now, they lived during a colder, darker, and scarier time period. The plague was a disease that had wiped millions out of existence. Their time had different grammar, people, actors, and beliefs. It was a totally different and interesting time period. These events took over half a century ago. An example of a different…

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    Essay On Yersinia Pestis

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    extinction. One such time, arguably the most infamous, was when the Black Death ravaged the western hemisphere. For several hundred years, the cause of this devastating disease remained a mystery, however, recent analysis from the DNA of the victims of the plague indicate that Yersinia pestis a bacillus shaped bacterium, was the likely cause of this tragedy (Perry and Fetherston, 1997). The road leading up to Y. pestis becoming God’s bacterial agent of judgement was a relatively short one, as…

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    Guilbeaux 1 Teonna Guilbeaux Mrs. Martinez English IV, First Hour Essay 5//1/16 The Black Death Many plagues have struck the world in the most terrible way, but the most remembered one is The Black Death, or the Bubonic Plague. The Black Death started in the 1340s. Although it felt like a century that the plague lasted, it only lasted about ten years ending in the 1350s. It started in Europe when 12 Genoese trading ships went through the Black Sea, then docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.…

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    The Black Death was a major epidemic of the bubonic plague that killed over one third of Eurasia’s population in the 1350s. Last year, I travelled to China, Italy, and England to find out how the Black Death impacted Eurasia during the 1300s. Throughout my journey, I investigated the Silk Road in China, the Orsanmichele church in Italy, and the Museum of London in England for clues that would help me discover the factors that made the Black Death one of the most devastating epidemics in human…

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    pandemic, including differing mortality rates, different ways of containing the contagion and different ideas of why the plague occurred in terms of religious and scientific perspectives. An epidemic that caused the most damage to Europe and neighbouring countries was the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Plague and Black Death. According to Giovanni Boccaccio, the Black Plague was highly contagious and highly fatal, killing people in 3 days. C.R. Boxer mentions the transmission of the…

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    Causes Of The Black Death

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    disease spreading around trading routes were heard by many Europeans. China was the first to be affected in the early 1330’s. Rodents were affected, transmitting them to fleas, which transmitted the disease to people. The disease was called the Bubonic Plague. China sent the outbreak to other countries such as: India, Persia, Syria, Egypt, and majority of countries in Europe. The Black Death was the name it was given by the Europeans. It arrived to Europe in October 1347. Twelve Genoese trading…

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    The Plague and The Plague: Are There Similarities In Between? Is the historical Black Death similar, in any way, to Albert Camus’s The Plague? Like the hurricane that brings fear and panic along with its powerful winds that sweep out everything with it, the same happened both in the real life and the fictional life. And despite obvious differences between history and Camus’ fictional representation, the novel The Plague manages to accurately depict society’s reaction to the devastation of The…

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    Mexica Chapter 1 Analysis

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    In Chapter 1, the lives of the Mexica caught my attention. The Mexica were people whose empire stretched from coast to coast across central Mexico and who numbered as many as 2 million. “By the 1490s the Mexica ruled an empire that covered more land than Spain and Portugal combined (Roark, 19)”. They were considered the strong arm in the neighborhood. The Mexica were hired out as mercenaries by the much richer and more settled tribes. It’s amazing to know that a small nobility of Mexican…

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    “repressive legislation that forced peasants to stay in their farms,” freezing their wages at low levels. With France increasing the taille (a direct tax on the peasantry), the English Parliament passed a Statute of Laborers, “limiting wages to pre plague levels and restricting the ability of peasants to leave the land of their original masters”; opposition among the peasantry towards this legislation and set of strict rules was a prominent factor in several peasant rebellions, such as the…

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