TJ Long AP Euro DBQ Essay There were numerous responses to the plague‚ such as fear‚ greed‚ and looking for a cause. The plague is a zoonotic disease‚ one of the three rare types of diseases that is created from Yersinia Pestis‚ a part of Enterobacteriaceae. This was a devastating time for people in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1700s and there were many responses about how the plague was affecting society during this time. This disease killed about 25 million people which caused
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Cambria Rooney 10.10.11 Period 4 The Black Plague struck Europe for the first time in the 15th century‚ wiping out one third of the entire western population. This pandemic changed the way the people who were affected thought and how they lived their lives. The Europeans’ actions within the 15th through 18th centuries were influenced by the need to control the disease‚ fear‚ and their own self-interest. The Europeans tried many ways to maintain the plague from getting worse and spreading
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During the Middle Ages‚ feudalism was common and people lived mainly under their lords. Peasants were assigned to work on their lord’s land and were not able to move around freely. Peasants generally lived under their lords and would only get the surplus food after they provided for their lords in exchange for the use of the land. In the late Middle Ages‚ peasants started fleeing local king owned communities and went to vast‚ open‚ and totally uninhabited land. The reason why this shifted is that
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DBQ Introduction: In the late 18th century‚ Europe experienced a substantial amount of urbanization due to the increase of industrialized factories‚ especially in the textile industry. Question: Describe the inventions that improved production and the European marketplace through the pre-Industrial Revolution. How did these advances affect social classes? Document 1: Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants (a major center of wool manufacture in Yorkshire)‚ 1791. Defending the use of machines. “yet
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When Manchester first built its big mechanized cotton machine‚ it became the leading textile manufacturing city in the whole world. Much of its population in 1850s was made up with the working class and immigrants from parts of Britain and even Europe. In 1851‚ it was granted a royal charter after Queen Victoria’s visit. The Reform Bill granted Manchester representation in parliament and middle-classmen the right to vote. All this was due to the exponential growth of Manchester during the Industrial
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alan katz AP Euro Age of European Explorations The renaissance’s curiosity helped pave the way for the European age of exploration‚ which took place from 1450 to 1525. There were many factors‚ including technological‚ economic‚ political‚ and religious ones. The age was promoted by many specific factors‚ including the invention of caravels and other nautical inventions‚ the commercial and price revolutions‚ the new monarchs‚ and the constant growth that the Catholic faith wanted. “God‚ glory
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Irene Kim AP Euro Winter Assignment 1/2 Unit I 1. There are several relationships that can be pointed out between the Middle Ages and modern times. One such example is the overpopulation that Europe faced before the Black Death and the overpopulation that the world is facing at this moment. Although not everywhere‚ there is poor sanitation and malnutrition in many areas of the world as there were back then. Another example is the economy and how there were a lack of jobs and pay for people
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Broderick Haney AP Euro Period: 1 14 September 2012 The Progressive Peasant Revolution Inhabiting the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century‚ the upper class considered peasants a mere subhuman. Conversely‚ Martin Luther‚ a German professor of theology‚ influenced reformation to the German state. This reformation focused on the peasants‚ especially the peasant revolt of 1524. As the revolution continued‚ the Peasant Parliament formed to coordinate activates and strive for optimistic results
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Witchcraft DBQ (Many of the people who were persecuted as witches from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries were those of a seemingly inferior mindset‚ those who are blamed for problems in the community and those who were social outcasts.) This time period occurred throughout the Protestant‚ Catholic and Scientific revolutions. The victims of the witch trials were usually persecuted in Europe as a whole however focused on areas like South Western Europe. Witches were usually people who were
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Shelby Mazzone 10/24 AP Euro DBQ Elizabeth I was the Queen of England who ruled from 1558-1603. Elizabeth’s reign achieved great success including great achievements in the arts and an increase in literacy. Overall Elizabeth’s rule established political stability‚ although Elizabeth battled opposing views‚ during that time‚ from people who saw a women unfit to rule and superior to men. Even through these negative views Elizabeth responded by applying strong leadership skills
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