Bubonic Plague Dbq

The initial decline of the middle ages laid between 1420 and stretched to 1470. During that time was the disastrous bubonic plague, also known as the black death, and other factors dragging the time longer after the plague even released it’s solid grasp on the world. Nearly seven thousand people died per day in Cairo, Egypt. The entire world was impacted by this time period, leaving no room for any group, social place, or country safe, save for very few. As for example, some German villages were never even touched by the disease, thanks to isolation and other higher living standards. The New World Encyclopedia mentions, “ In Western Europe, the sudden scarcity of cheap labor provided an incentive for landlords to compete for peasants
The Jewish religion have regulations on their cleanliness, such as not eating unclean animals. Back when the plague had spread, the jews had not been drinking from public wells before that. When the plague took its toll and left, the jews suffered less deaths from their clean habits and isolated ghettos. Not understanding the concept of bacteria, village people began to blame the jews for poisoning the well. Some communities banned and persecuted jews, some killed jews, and some did not care. In fact, 350 separate massacres occurred. The New World Encyclopedia states “This persecution was often not merely out of religious hatred, but also as a way of attacking the kings or Church who protected the Jews (Jews were often called the king's property) and as a way of lashing out at the institutions that had failed them.” This refers to the bishops who promised to banish the plague, and utterly failed. The most they did at this time was try and capture of kill the Flagellants. This was especially prominent in the catholic churches. The clergy began to run low, from disease and other occurrences. They were replaced with more secular, non religious, positions. The church had began to fall, and was looked poorly