The Plague

Jamestown: Why Did So Many Die? Jayleen Guan Period: 6 Did you ever wonder why so many colonist died in Jamestown? Well I’m here to tell you why. It took place in the year 1607 to 1610 at Jamestown. The English settlers who were mostly females and males went to Jamestown. Life there was very tough and hardworking with lots of diseases and death. The question I’m answering is Why did so many colonist at Jamestown die because of diseases? Diseases killed so many english settlers…

What has this world come to? Americans are consuming toxins on a daily basis. GMOs or “seeds of death” are injected with pesticides and are poisonous! They cause cancer! The bees and butterflies are dying after landing on them! Don’t even get me started on the creator of GMOs, Monsanto! Monsanto is a giant evil corporation which is just in it for the money. They don’t care about anything but their wallets and even sue helpless family farmers for no reason! GMOs and anyone associated with them…

'Dripping rat blood' closes Roman Forum ticket office Experts say there are 6 million rats in the Eternal City. One of the four ticket offices allowing access to the Roman Forum was closed on Monday when rat's blood started falling on to the counter from the ceiling. The blood was noticed by an employee at the new ticket office, located in the square in front of the Colosseum early Monday morning, and health authorities were called to deal with the problem. “A rodent had died in the ceiling…

Knights Hospitaller What it is? (Introduction) The Knights Hospitaller were one of the most important and wealthiest Military Orders that were active during the Crusades. They are also known as the Knights of the Order of Saint John the Hospitaller, Knights of Malta, Knights of Rhodes and some others. The name Knights was given since they were knights who protected the people and the name Hospitaller, because of how they started their military order. Knights and monks were the elements that…

Wessex Wessex was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from 519 until England was unified by Æthelstan in the early 10th century. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, but this may be a legend. The two main sources for the history of Wessex are the Anglo-Saxon . During the 8th century, as the hegemony of Mercia grew, Wessex largely . The name of Viking - pirate or sea-raider - was derived from "wic" - the temporary camps established by the…

The horrifying disease that has now past, killed fifty million people in Europe. We believe that is was caused by poisoned air, it was advised that everyone burn aromatic herbs and wood to clear the air there have been several remedies that have been discovered so we found a lot of people going to their local herbalists and that germs were passed when a victim coughed or air being inhaled. We feel it occurred because God was punishing us for our sins. We have had priests on the job making…

The sounds of birds could be heard out here in the African savannah. Dembe had always woken up to this sound and not until recently he had also been woken up by his son, Caden. Caden, like most children, was very energetic and had made a habit of jumping on his father’s bed in order to wake him. So the day began, birds were chirping when all of a sudden everything ceased and here came Caden. He slid along the new, shiny timber floor and braced himself for impact as he rammed into the bedroom…

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…

In the history of the world, many diseases surface among of the many such as the plague knows as Black Death. The tragic and exceptional experience of the Fourteenth Century showed a sharp population decline, bitter internal conflicts in economic area, and the exasperation of social struggles. This paper is to explore the Black Death phenomena, how this disease came about, the consequences, and the impacts that affected the society in the Fourteenth Century. The Black Death was endemic in…

the archaeological process of theories as a basis, Hatcher’s micro historical approach to the black plague is quite important based on the exploration of new theories that adhere to the historian’s methodology. This, however, is not enough to allow the narrative to stand up to historical analysis, instead it is much better suited to introduce a new audience and a new way of analysing the black plague. John Hatcher’s example of microhistory…