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People were desperate, for food, and for money since there was a great labour shortage (naturally since people kept dying) and then as with a common fad the Jews were blamed. It was bad enough that the jews had to experience the bubonic plague as well, but they were also being burned to death and massacred because they were accused of poisoning wells, and casting spells...
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People were desperate, for food, and for money since there was a great labour shortage (naturally since people kept dying) and then as with a common fad the Jews were blamed. It was bad enough that the jews had to experience the bubonic plague as well, but they were also being burned to death and massacred because they were accused of poisoning wells, and casting spells...
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The Black Death Plague The Black Death plague, also known as the Bubonic plague, attacked Europe in 1347. The Bubonic plague was one of the many pestilences that would attack almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere...	3 / 565
The Black Plague Many thought the Black Plague was a curse from God; punishment for the sins the infected had committed. Those that survived were the chosen people, the ones who abided by the laws of the Church...	3 / 656
Black Death (the Plague) The plague was brought to Europe by cargo from China. In this cargo there were rats that had flea’s on them that carried this plague, and this little flea’s caused one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of the world...	2 / 503
Black Plague During the mid-14th century, the Black Death, a massive and deadly pandemic, swept through Eurasia, killing approximately one third of the population (according to some estimates) and changing the course of Asian and European history...	3 / 585
Black Plague The plague was passed among many rodents by fleas. Most of the rodents were rats. Fleas living on the rat‘s blood would eject the disease into the rat causing it to die quickly...	4 / 952
Black Plague Life in fourteenth century Europe was at a major low. France and England are at constant conflict, there is widespread famine due to crop failures from 1315-1317, and poor living conditions are affecting hundreds of thousands of Europeans...	5 / 1360
The Black Plague Maybe the most common of the beliefs was that god sent down the plague unto the unbelievers, who were the Muslims. It was said it began among the unbelievers, which then it moved into Italy, and then finally crossing the Alps and spreading from there...	3 / 584