christanity

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No one was exempt as it swept in off the shores and into the countryside laying its

burden of death and pestilence. Europe had prospered readily for about 300 years prior to

the beginning of the 1300s, but a series of natural disasters occurred. Poor harvests and

famine were common and as the prosperous years came to a close, economies were in

recession at the onset of the Black Death. Europe, on a whole, would take a step

There have been plagues throughout recorded history, but none were of the

magnitude nor had the far reaching effects that the Black Plague had. Its namesake came

from symptomatic hemorrhages that turned black. Though most people associate the

Black Death with the middle ages, forms of the Bubonic Plague have been known in China

as early as 224 BC. The Black Death embarked on a journey as an epidemic in the Gobi

Desert in the 1320s. By 1400, China's population of 125 million had been reduced to 90

million. Southwest Asia and Europe followed suite with strikingly similar losses in their

population base. In 1347, the Kipchaks who were nomads from the Euro-Asian Steppe,

1562 (attached), this fresco by Francesco Traini, is also called "Triumph of Death", 1350

four short years of history was immense. A plague of the proportions that struck Europe

the disruptiveness of malodorous places such as latrines would drive the sickness away,

brought back to earth by their own mortality. The Renaissance was a reawakening,

wickedness. There were also others who believed themselves condemned and in today's

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