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    other part of the world, stability was put to a halt as millions fell to the most fatal disease recorded in European history, the Black Death, or Bubonic Plague. Beginning in the Late Middle Ages around 1340, Europeans were unable to escape the grip of death as the Black Death was transmitted in three different forms: pneumonic, septicemic, and bubonic. Europeans affected by the Black Death usually only lived for two days after contact. The Black Death was so devastating to European society…

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    Christians and Muslims treated and reacted differently to the bubonic plague. They both had different theories on how people got it the plague. They are also similar in those ways as well, sharing the same ideas and thoughts. In this paper there will be examples of how Christians and Muslims responded differently and the same. Including how the two reacted and what they viewed the plague to be. Muslims saw the plague as a blessing from God and should accept what was going to happen to them.…

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    In addition the plague created an increase in the need for higher education and placing a higher importance on how medicine and physical science work together (Edmonds, 2008). The start of medicine can be contributed to epidemic of the plague because during the Middle Ages the focus was more on practical actions, but following the outbreak the creation of “medicine as a science” (Damen, 2015) came into effect in the West. One can only say that Western medicine came about due to the disturbing…

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    bloodstream, being touched by the infected, or by touching things of the infected." The plague was also a a sanitar problem. Because the people wasnt as clean. Also, they thought that if they…

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    The Black Death also known as the Black Plague or the Bubonic Plague change the lives of people during the Renaissance and altered medical procedures still used today. The disease, which spread quickly throughout cities for centuries, is actually a bacterial infection and could kill a person within a matter of days. “This infection is found mainly in rodents and their fleas. But the fleas leapt to humans, infecting them with the disease.” The Black Plague swept through Asia and Europe. It…

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    Did The Mongols Have A Negative Or Positive Impact? The Mongolians of the Asian Steppe had a negative impact on the world during their rule of the Asian continent from 1206 to 1368 by influencing cruel deaths, spread of disease, and the destruction of land. Genghis Khan was a very successful man but his journey to success in my opinion as not the best way to go. One reason that this was a negative impact was because of the death toll. The death toll added to millions of lives being lost.…

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    the morning” (Black Death). The Black death is a devastating plague that left many without homes and family. It lasted 5 years ending the life of over 20 million (Black Death). It began in 1348 (Kellys), and ravaged london in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1665 (Bubonic Plague) acting like fog, slowly crawling around and affecting everything in its grasp reducing the affected population 10 to 30%. There was never really a break from the plague. It would slow down in the winter; giving some serenity…

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    from 1347 to the early 1400s Though the plague faded away from Europe it still exists to this day and doctors and specialists have not found any cure for the plague. The plague was brought into Europe after merchants returned home from international lands which brought infected Asian rats with fleas to Europe. Historians believe that the black death killed 30%-60% of…

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    Alchin, Linda. "The Black Death & Bubonic Plague during the Elizabethan Era." Bubonic Plague. Siteseen Ltd, June 2015. Web. 14 Apr. 2016. This source gave me an insight on the Black Death specifically during the Elizabethan Era. It also explained what people did to prevent it. Watchmen were used to give food to the sick people in “plague houses”, and they also made sure that no one entered or escaped from the house to prevent the illness from spreading. They were also given the job to transport…

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