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The Plague DBQ
Sweeping through Western Europe during the fourteenth century, the Bubonic Plague wiped out nearly one third of the population and did not regard: status, age or even gender. All of this occurred as a result of a single fleabite. Bubonic Plague also known as Black Death started in Asia and traveled to Europe by ships. The Plague was thought to be spread by the dominating empire during this time, the Mongolian Empire, along the Silk Road. The Bubonic Plague was an infectious disease spread by fleas living on rats, which can be easily, be attached to traveler to be later spread to a city or region. Many factors like depopulation, decreasing trade, and huge shifts in migrations occurred during the Bubonic Plague. During Bubonic Plague there were also many different beliefs and concerns, which include fear, exploitation, religious and supernatural superstition, and a change of response from the fifteenth to eighteen century.
Fear of the Bubonic Plague mainly came from people not knowing what was the cause of the Plague, this fear seems to become even more uncertain as the best doctors, scientist, or even the educated do not know the cause of the Plague. This theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam (document 2) sees this fear, as he seems to blame the cause of the Plague in England because of the filth on the street. This fear can also be seen in by the educated as the representative of the Frankish king Staden (document 5) explains how the houses of the sick were immediately nailed up after the doctors visited them. Another example of how fear occurred during the plague was in Pepys (document 13) when the English naval bureaucrat, a part of the government, stated that no one would buy wigs. Wigs at this time were very common for government officials and honorable men to wear and did not wear them as they feared the infection they may spread to them as it could have been the hair off the heads of people who had been killed by the Plague. The...
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