Plague of Justinian

The Black Death The Bubonic Plague, otherwise known as the Black Death, was the most devastating pandemic in human history. The disease is thought to have originated in China, where during the 14th century it killed half of the population, while in Europe it killed a third of the population. In fact, it took Europe 150 years to recover from such a high mortality (Wein p1). The cause of the disease is a bacillus, Yesinia pestis, which infects the rodent’s bloodstream, and after death, passes on…

crops that did grow were dying. For some reason God had punished Europe with seven bad years of weather and famine which lead to the greatest plague of all time. This plague was known as the “Bubonic Plague”, an epidemic that was soon to be spread from Asia…

The Black Plague struck first in Southern Europe during the mid-fourteenth century and cause many hardships to the people of Europe. As the plague spread throughout Europe, many local communities took extreme measures in means of hoping to further stop the spread of the plague. While some people took extreme measures to prevent the plague, a majority of the population took religious stances in hopes of finding guidance, and as a way of hoping to escape the plague. Throughout the Black Plague,…

The First World War went down as the deadliest conflict in history, with over 17 million deaths and 20 million injuries ("WW1 Casualties"). Although, what possible reason could ‘justify’ over 37 million casualties? Like many historical events, WW1 transpired in wake from equally influential events, like a domino effect. In 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip sparked the initial outbreak of fighting, and WW1 began. Yet, this wasn’t the sole reason for war. Many…

There were three types of plagues, often referred to as “The Black Death.” More formally, the three plagues were known as bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. Elliot’s book states that the bubonic plague resulted from when fleas infected with the bacteria yersinia pestis bit a human. Once the bacteria make it into a human’s lymphatic system, painful bumps develop…

The Black Death was the event in European and world history caused by a terrible strain of the bubonic plague (Yersinia Pestis) that quickly spread across Europe in the mid-1300s. Smaller breakouts of the plague had happened before and after the 1300s, however, the Black Death of the mid-1300s was the most notable as over twenty million people were killed in a period spanning from 1347-1352 alone, or about one third of Europe’s population, and anywhere from fifty million to one hundred million…

I believe that the red fire ants are the most harmful species. They take over everything. They eat animals that we need to eat. The red fire ants take over lots of land so we can not use the land are play on the land. The most harmful invader species is red fire ants because there are lots of them invading and killing lots of animals. Red fire ants are considered the most harmful species because they are harmful to us and other species. First of all red fire ants kill people. In the 1930s, they…

A must be correct, because when the tattered Spanish Armada vessels were about to crash, they were swept by the wind into the North Sea. The attacks from the English had greatly weakened the ships and when the storms in the North Sea came, the ships could not handle the battering from the elements. Dozens of Spanish ships were wrecked and millions of crew members and soldiers drowned. The storms in the North Sea were a major reason for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, because it was the final…

Literary Essay: “Fever 1793” Laurie Anderson’s historical fiction story, Fever 1793 is about the big massacre that happened in Philadelphia. The disease (Yellow Fever) destroyed everything in its path by sickening people and even killing them. The feeling of losing loved one's changed everyone. Not just emotionally, but also physically. By using emotions within sentences and dialogue, Lisa Anderson shows the lesson death can change a person. Because of this whole epidemic, Mattie has grown…

Ring Around the Rosie. What I Know The black plague started in mid evil times, better know as the dark ages. It was the deadliest plague to ever be documented in the history of the world. It was also the most widespread plague in the world, killing…