PLAGUE DBQ In the 1300’s‚ a disease known as the Bubonic plague tore through parts of Asia North Africa‚ and Europe. This plague- commonly known as the “black death”- originated in Asia‚ and used the trade routes to travel to other cities‚ allowing the plague to strike many major cities. The plague took away lives of around 25 million people. The plague not only claimed many lives during its reign‚ but had a tremendous effect on Europe economically‚ politically‚ and socially. The Bubonic plague
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in the plague‚ even though Shakespeare was alive almost 300 years after the largest outbreak of the Black Death. Shakespeare’s plays were really crowded.So crowded in fact‚ that they were “considered to be hotbeds for contagion”(Rasmussan and DeJong 7). Even though the Black Death was easily spread in the theatres people still came and watched Shakespeare’s plays. People came to his plays because they helped people
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I. Thesis Statement: The symptoms of the bubonic plague spread rapidly causing outbreaks and identifying the need for modern science to deal with epidemics. II. Topic Sentence: The bubonic plague or otherwise known as the black plague spread extremely fast and there were many symptoms of the disease. A. There are many initial symptoms and symptoms before death of the black plague. “The Bubonic Plague” E medicine. 24 December 2004. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic428.htm ‚ Velendzas‚ Demetres
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http://ponderosa-pine.uoregon.edu/students/Janis/menu.html Abstract Bubonic plague has had a major impact on the history of the world. Caused by the bacterium‚ Yersinia pestis‚ and transmitted by fleas often found on rats‚ bubonic plague has killed over 50 million people over the centuries. Burrowing rodent populations across the world keep the disease present in the world today. Outbreaks‚ though often small‚ still occur in many places. The use of antibiotics and increased scientific knowledge
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influenced by religion especially by the Catholic Church. The Plague‚ or the Black Death‚ struck Europe over the course of the first three-quarters of the 14th century‚ marked a significant change‚ not only for the Catholic Church but also for society as a whole. It resulted in the death of half to two thirds of the population. It caused a widespread labor shortage‚ the Catholic Church’s credibility was severely damaged as it could not stop the plague‚ and new technology was developed to make up for the labor
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as the bubonic plague. Europe was not alone in this catastrophe; portions of Northern Africa and Asia were also affected. The extent of the devastation caused by the bubonic plague can be explained by examining the culture of the 1300s. The population was unaware of how the disease was spread and therefore no preventable measures were made. The plague affected social‚ political‚ religious‚ and economic life. The disease was able to spread from Asia into Europe and North Africa. The bubonic plague
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When Bubonic Plague visited England in 1348‚ it was called the Great Mortality. We know it as the Black Death that lasted until 1352 and killed vast populations in Asia ‚ North Africa ‚ Europe ‚ Iceland ‚ and Greenland . In total‚ it extinguished as much as fifty percent of the world’s population. In England ‚ bubonic plague on average killed at least one-third of all inhabitants between 1348 and 1349. In London alone‚ one out of two people died during the visitation. The bottom line is that
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14Th Century Europe was a period of chaos and turmoil. The Great Famine of 1315-1317 produced the worst famine in the Middle Ages that killed millions of people all over Europe. The onset of the Bubonic Plague (“Black Death”) only made things worse. The Black Death swept throughout Europe and killed as much as two fifths of the already diminished European population. The Black Death effected Europe politically‚ socially‚ and economically. Europeans responded to the Black Death differently. We got
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Continent. As a result of this medical ignorance diseases and plagues prospered in this region. Such prosperous diseases include the most well known killer in history‚ the black death; otherwise known as the bubonic plague. It was believed widely that the bubonic plague originated in Europe in the 14th century‚ due to the fact that it is taught mainly in this time frame. Although it was most known in the late 1300s‚ the Bubonic Plague in fact originated in 430-427 B.C. Athens was the first country
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An important event of Shakespeare’s time was the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague is one of the world’s most well-known epidemics. During the middle ages this deadly disease managed to kill 30 to 50% of Europe’s population. Throughout the years the plague’s effect has died down‚ but it is very much still alive today. The play is a very deadly disease caused by bacteria called Yersinia Pestis. The main way that the plague gets transported is by rats and fleas. The bacteria can also be transported
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