What Happened During The Black Plague

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The Black Plague still to this day remains one of the worst epidemics in known history. When the plague first hit most people weren’t too concerned, thinking that it would be cured and it wasn’t anything to spectacular. That thought quickly changed as the epidemic spread like wildfire and killed most of the people who caught it very quickly. It wiped out over a quarter of Europe and surrounding countries and no one knew where it came from. Many people thought that because it was incurable and killed so efficiently that this was the apocalypse starting. At this point in history, many theories revolved around religious beliefs and the fact that everyone thought God had a role in almost everything, natural and unnatural. Two of the main religions …show more content…

This would be an example of the bloodshed and unrest that Ibn Khaldun talks about in his letter in Discovering the Global Past. The Christians also believe that a big part of the reason the plague is started is because God wants to punish his people for all the continuous fighting that is happening. As the plague becomes worse and worse they fear that this is another one of God’s punishments on mankind comparable to the Great Flood in the Old …show more content…

The epidemic rarely left survivors when they became infected. Many would die in less than three days. Priests in both of the two major religions now believed fully that the end of the world was eminent and the only way they could be saved was through prayer and asking God for forgiveness. There are examples of multiple prayers in the text Discovering the Global Past. All of them involve asking God to forgive the whole population and ask him many times to spare the one praying and any member of the population not yet infected. They also considered anyone who had died from the disease to be a martyr because they were killed by God punishing not them necessarily, but the whole

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