Pandemic

Back in the Middle Ages, 50% of people died from a terrible disease called the Bubonic Plague. Though this plague was devastating, many great advancements came from this. Art and literature had a new age of change, going from dark to bright. Science expanded, giving us new ideas about the universe. From this period we know many great things, but what would happen if the plague broke out now? After the plague, many this changed. People still supported God, but they started to question the…

The Athenian golden Age was brought about by the defeat of the Persian army. This defeat brought about significant overall advances that would shape the world as we see it today. This includes advancements in government, literature, drama, philosophy, and the arts. The beginning of the end of this golden age started in 431 BC and lasted for 27 years. Known as the Peloponnesian war, a war between Sparta and its allies and Athens would tear apart the union between the two city-states it once had…

First of all, the Magna Carta is a document giving power to nobles and land barons from King John. As said in the text it is a “landmark on the road to limited monarchy” (Roger of Wendover). One piece of evidence in the text was “... without raising any difficulty, granted the underwritten laws and liberties, and confirmed them by his charter…” The first reason feudalism fell was because of the Magna Carta a document granting rights from King John to nobles and land barons. After a rebellious…

The Black Plague was no ordinary plague, it killed more than 25 million people in 1347-1353 (Dobson)! The Black Plague was the worst plague in human history because it was in a highly populated area, was easily spread and and it was hard to treat. The Black Plague was the worst disease in human history. The Black Plague was nicknamed the black death because at its worst times many people described it as a black cloud of death that was not avoidable(Dobson). The black plague killed 30% of the…

The plague “How and why did the plague occur in Medieval Europe occur?” The first account of the description of the plague was from Messina. In early October 1347 twelve Genoese Gallery entered Messina Harbour. The people of Messina noticed the men with unusual black boils on their bodies. Anyone who spoke to the men quickly developed a boil the size of a lentil on their thighs and upper arms. This resembled a “burn boil”. The patient would then vomit blood for 3 days after which on the 4th…

Every summer there seems to be an exponential increase in the number of terrible videos on the news and the Internet that exhibit terrifying images of forests engulfed in flames and cities completely bogged down with smoke. When reading the section of Beowulf where the dragon gets mad and burns down the Geats’ homeland, the scene depicted in the poem is very similar to those scenes shown by the news. America’s wildfires may not come from a monstrous dragon, but they are just as damaging, and…

Health in the Elizabethan was very poor. Knowledge about sanitation and medical treatments were limited. People started to believe that if they had a disease the soul was bad. As popularity was increasing the sanitation was worsening. Doctor would determine the disease based on the persons urine color or they we determined it on the four humors which is blood, phlegm, choler and melancholy, if the humors we imbalanced they we said to be sick they would be cured by removing or adding blood or…

The black death was one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It was caused by the bubonic plague and its variants,. In the 14th century something happened that caused the disease spread . It was likely the rise of trade. The disease lived in fleas carried by rats. When a rat died, the fleas on that rat would need to find another host. When that host was a human, the people would get very sick and most people who had the disease would die very quickly. It is assumed that the…

On Thursday 4th of May 2017, BBC published an article about the dormant diseases, bacteria, and viruses hidden in the ice that was waking up as a result of climate change. I thought it was a very interesting article for one. Humans were strange; some very intelligent and curious - my favorite kinds of humans - and some were just… odd. Technology was pretty tremendous in 2017. Most humans had smartphones and other electronic devices that kept them in touch with the news and other stuff.…

The Black Plague was a very dangerous plague that started in Europe in the early 1300’s. It took out nearly a third of all the European population during the first wave and more followed that. This plague started thanks to the Y. Pestis bug in China and from there, it just rapidly began to spread across Europe. Of course, we now know a lot of information about this today, but in the early 1300’s people didn’t really understand what was going on. The Europeans began to try to figure out the…