The Black Death

Title: The Black Death
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The Black Death

virulence that the course of human history changed forever” (Wark). In its second pandemic, the bubonic plague, mostly referred to as the Black Death, wiped out almost a third of Europe’s population. The Black Death was a horrible tragedy that was responsible for many deaths and caused many changes in the 14th through 17th century. The bubonic plague could not have spread on it’s own: it needed help. For instance, natural disasters, such …showed first 75 words of 1017 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1017 total…University Press, 1993. Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times. New York: G.P. Putman’s sons, 1995. Nikiforuk, Andrew. The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Epidemics, Plagues, Famines, and other Scourges. Toronto: Penguin Books Ltd., 1991. “Plague.” Microsoft Encarta. CD-ROM. 1997, ed. Roden, Katie. Plague. Brookfield: Copper Breech Books, 1996. Wark, Lori Anne. “The Black Death.” Discovery Communications, Inc. © 1998. Online. Internet. 28 April 1999. Available http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/blackdeath/blackdeath.html.

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