Pneumonic plague

It’s 1349 in central London, England. Millions are dying all around you and it may be the very end of the world. This was the picture many had called their lives around the time of the Black Death. Always wondering whether they have contracted the disease or would soon. Over one third of the entire European population was wiped out by this disease, and was very easily spread from person t person. There was, though, many contributors to the spread of the Black Death. The Black Death had many…

Why the Europeans could not handle the Black plague? Throughout history humankind has suffered from severe catastrophes that have been overcome, whether by reaching appropriate solutions or by a matter of luck. Among these calamitous events, the most harmful and grievous disease occurred in the 14th century. This disease, bubonic plague, was later called by the historians “the Black Death,” and was viewed as a fearful epidemic or “punishment—as Christians believed.” It spread across Europe,…

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…

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…

In both of the books, God and Gilgamesh both use violence to show their power. Similarly, God uses violence against the Pharaoh with the ten plagues to show his power and to show the Pharaoh is a false God, while Gilgamesh uses violence to defeat and kill Humbaba to show his power. The difference between these two would be that God used his violence to prove a point and show that he was the real…