The Black Death was one of the deadliest and most impactful events that the world has ever witnessed. It is believed that the plague originated in Asia and it began to spread to other parts of the world around 1345 to 1346 when the plague struck water for the first time. Supposedly‚ this happened when Yanibeg‚ a khan of the Golden Horde‚ which was a part of the Mongol Empire‚ began catapulting the bodies of plague victims over its walls into the Black Sea. Once the plague hit the Black Sea‚ there
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During the High Middle Ages‚ Western Europe developed one of the most impressive and successful civilizations the world had yet seen. One might have thought it was a civilization destined to continue essentially unchanged for centuries. But that’s not what happened. In the 14th century‚ a series of disasters shook Western European civilization to its foundations‚ eventually forcing major changes in Europe. The first disaster to hit Europe was famine. Some of the agricultural success of the High
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The Columbian Exchange and the Silk Road were both global systems of exchange that had similarities and differences. One of the main points are what was exchanged‚ such as food‚ disease‚ and people. Also‚ the people who traded things were of difference ethnicities but had some similar goals. Finally‚ the location of the networks were mostly different‚ but one of the countries collided between the two systems. There were a variety of trade on the Silk Road and Columbian Exchange. There were
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The time period between 400 AD and 1400 AD was a dark age because of the decline in education and creativity‚ the black plaque and lawlessness. The decline in education and creativity in the time period between 400 AD and 1400 AD made the dark ages dark. Even though universities were built around 1088 AD only the rich were allowed to go to them. People in europe at the time were losing their educational skills and children from poor families could not afford to put them in school. According to
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How has the Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic of 1793 change history? An appalling contagious outbreak impacted the colossal city of America and its country’s capital. In the summer of 1793 the weather was brutally humid and mild. Therefore‚ this infectious disease has initiated in August and is known to be terminated approximately few months later in November. This disease has commenced by mosquitoes and caused a massive amount of deaths. Not only has this epidemic dispatched numerous people it
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The Lottery The Lottery‚ a short story by Shirley Jackson is about the mystery of the black box. “Lottery in June‚ Corn be heavy soon.” Every year there is a Lottery‚ which takes place in small towns for crops to grow fast and properly. The author included many symbols throughout the story‚ which foreshadowed the dark ending. There was a lot of symbolism portrayed throughout the story‚ from the beginning to the end‚ weather it was through names‚ objects‚ or phrases. The names used in the story
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Traci keener Poe who wrote the “The Masque of the Red” 200 year ago been talking about the modern day disease Ebola. Poe probably was talking about Ebola cause he sad that everyone that got it bled out. Ebola is like a flu virus; but way worse cause you bleed for you pores ‚ eyes‚ nose‚ and mouth.”The Masgue of the red death” said when you go the virus you die in thirty minutes. Africa was the place where Ebola is from in Africa In the 1976 is where Ebola started it killed 280 of the 318 people
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Summary: The author of this page about imperialism in north africa wrote much about the beginning of northern african imperialism including the war between Algeria’s army and the French that lasted for 50 years‚ while also during the same time tens of thousands impoverished immigrants from the Mediterranean basin were flowing into Algeria; taking the people’s land and resources‚ and further weakening the country. Not only were the immigrants and the constant war weakening the country but the French
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The whole earth is huge and so there are many things we do not know. For instance there was Albert Einstein‚ the famous scientist of all time. Singers that changed the world forever and ever. For last there are many types of diseases‚ plagues‚ and other nasty things that make us sick to the stomach. The Bubonic Plague made many people sick and killed millions of people. The sickness is also known as the Black Death. Thankfully the sickness is not created by people that is a good sign that we will
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Lord Howe Island Flycatcher The Lord Howe Island Fly Catcher is a bird that went extinct 88 years ago. It’s scientific name is Gerygone insularis (reserved‚ 2012). Some interesting facts about it are that it’s order is Passeriforme and it’s family is Acanthizidae (reserved‚ 2012). It’s habitat is a forest on Lord Howe Island in Austrailia. The bird’s diet was arthropods and other flying insects (reserved‚ 2012). It would normally lay 2-3 pink eggs (reserved‚ 2012). If you want to know exactly
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