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The Thames River is the longest river in England. In 1309-1320 it froze because of the drastic weather changes (Little ice age). This map shows where the Thames River is in comparison to London.
I also found this chart on Wikipedia. It shows the temperature change through the middle ages (showing the comparison from the little ice age to the warmer period). The Medieval Climate optimum was a warm period that came shortly before the little ice age.
I started out finding a Map of Eurasia This is a pretty good map, although not all the specific locations are labeled but it gives a good idea of the general area. The map in the book is best.
Also, the reading said that in the 14th century in Eurasia, the plague happened because of the fluctuating temperatures. Because the climate was relatively warm and then switched to cold, the plague came to be. Is it possible that something like this can happen again in our society?
I thought it was interesting in the reading that some Europeans and Mongols thought God was punishing them by sending the plague. I thought this was similar to how the countries getting attacked by the Mongols felt, that they were being punished. It brought forth a theme that we've seen a lot and was mentioned in the reading. The idea of "punishment for an infidel" also came up in the reading so I wanted to find out what it meant. I found out from This site that..."The Greek word translated "infidel" is apistos, meaning "faithless, unbelieving, without faith." Some in the Messiah�s time were a "faithless and perverse generation" who refused to believe in His healing power, Matthew 17:14-21. The source of faith, He said, was prayer and fasting.
Those servants of His who refuse to believe in the soon-coming King, and live a wanton life, will be cut asunder, and punished as unbelievers, Luke 12:45-48."
Sabrina, I hate to break to you, but the map you have is of the Thames river in Canada. A more appropriate map would be this one.
You are correct that the Thames River is the longest river in England, however the Severn is also the longest river in Great Britain.
Emma, your map of Eurasia could be slightly better. For example you used the source "1984 Fictitious World Map". Hmmm..Not sure if that's the best source. Also, I looked up Eurasia on Wikipedia and it is defined as "Eurasia comprises the geo-political areas of Europe and Asia" The map that you gave did not include all of Asia, which needs to be included for the map to be of Eurasia. Just a thought.
Also, you mentioned that it might be possible for climate change to occur again in our society and this might in turn cause a massive plague. Now while, yes, we do have our fair share of bad diseases, AIDS/HIV, SARS and Bird Flu all come to mind, however, with our current level of sophistication and high standard of cleanliness, I consider it highly unlikely that we will be a plague as drastic as the bubonic plague was. Remember, the main cause of the plague was rats/fleas, but we wouldn't allow these into our houses today whereas they were allowed in Middle Ages, mainly because they found it very difficult to get rid of them. So answering your original question, no, I find it very difficult to believe that climate change would ever cause a bacterial epidemic similar to the one that we saw with the Black Plague.
As for my own questions,
1)How did the plague eventually end? I believed it was just the fact that people became immune to the disease?
2) Addressing the issue of Climate Change in the Middle Ages, could we be seeing the end of what began in the Middle Ages? The cool spell could be ending and while yes, Global Warming is probably speeding up the warming of the earth, could this overall trend be the result of this cool spell ending?
3) While plague clearing affected a good portion of the world and caused a large amount of death, overall, couldn't the plague have been good? It ended the feudal system and gave way to semi-new forms of government, so could the plague have been the catalyst for change?
It said that there were 30,000 donkey rental businesses in the city, but what was the total population of the city? Was the plague only in Eurasia or where there a few known cases in places far away? How much colder did the world become? When it said the Great drowning took 60 parishes in Denmark, what does parishes mean?
I was interested in looking up more about Ibn Battuta mainly to see if he said that every city he went to he praised so highly or was it just Cairo. Ok so it wasn't just Cairo it was every city he went to unless there was a war or a plague.
I also found it interesting that meteorologists used tree rings to see that there was a climate change. what other primitive methods did they use?
After the reading, I looked on Google for some more general info on the Black Plague... and I found this pretty helpful site with some general info about the Black Plague.
I followed the link about the Flagellants because I had heard the term before... and it said that Flagellants were groups of people who traveled around and inflicted physical punishment on themselves, in order to satisfy God. This was because they thought the plague was a punishment from God. However, the Flagellants were generally shunned by the people and even the Pope.
Also, there are some pretty detailed accounts and descriptions of the Flagellants on the website. It was pretty helpful all around, because it's got a lot of information abou the Plague.
In the black death reading, I was wondering why it said that the North East suffered less? Then it said it could be due to isolation, yet could there be another reason? Would it have anything to do with trade? How did the disease die out, and if it came back would we be able to come up with a cure?
I thought it was pretty interesting how in the book reading, it didn't really talk about the plague very much, just what happened before it. How the earth went into a "little ice age" which caused ecological problems for many of the regions that were later affected by the plague. The book also talks about the fluctuation of the temperature between "little ice ages" and periods of "global warming". (see where I'm going with this?) I think it is kind of interesting that even in a history book you can learn science and maybe we can learn from this and no over react next time people start freaking out about a natural weather fluctuation.
On another note, i do have a question about the plague! I thought it was interesting that all the religions/regions thought the heavens were punishing them for their wickedness and it made me think. If all the religions thought that their god/gods were so different from the other gods, then why did they all believe that god sent the plague to punish them? Shouldn't they have different reason?
When I was reading in the book, I ran across this sentence:
"This produces the notorious El Niño effect..."
I remembered learning about it once in eighth grade, but couldn't remember much, so I looked it up and found this Wikipedia article on it.
Apparently, as you can see in the article, it's a temperature fluctuation in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean, which causes all sorts of problems like flooding and drought.
I also found this map of the areas it most often affects, and how it affects them.
1) I was wondering after I read this if some places avoided the plague? And if they did- how did they avoid it? I was also curious about el nino and found this definition: El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and climate around the globe
In the reading, it mentioned Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a "story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outside the city". I was interested in learning more about the writer as well as the literary work. So, I started with Wikipedia. Some Background Info
Boccaccio was an Italian writer from Florence. His work the Decameron vividly describes the results of the Plague in Florence. During the story, one person tells a story per night at the villa. In all, 100 stories are told. This method of a people telling stories within a single story is similar to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. And on Wikipedia, it says that other writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucher were influenced by Boccaccio's Decameron.
Here's a link to a summary of of the novels. The summaries take a more analytical approach to Boccaccio's work than merely plot.
How did El Nino affect the farmers? Why is it called El Nino? I know that it means the little boy, but I don´t think that these storms were very small.
Was there only expansion when the weather warmed? Why was this? Also, was the whole world affected by the cooling? Did people write about this cooling or do we just know about it because of the tree rings?
I wrote my paper on The Black Death, so I always thought it was an interesting topic.My paper I believe was deleted some how, but I know from research that the black death was divided into three different categories of diseases: the septicaemic plague is a form of blood poisoning, and pneumonic plague is an airborne plague that attacks the lungs before the rest of the body, bubonic plague which had buboes as a clear sign of this killer. The bubonic plague was most commonly seen, Pneumonic is the second most commonly seen, and the septicaemic plague had the worst fatality rate and would most likely kill you with in a day of the symptoms first being seen. Even today the septicaemic plague is still not treated. Less than 1% survive the septicaemic plague because its that deadly.
How big was Cairo at the time when they had 36,000 donkey rentals? this seems way high. did it mean that they had 36,000 donkey's for rent? if that wasn't the case, then does tokyo have around 36,000 car rentals? wouldn't this be a lot. or does it have 36,000 cars for rent.
After the reading, I wondered if there were any other large-scale epidemics like this one, that killed such a massive amount of people in such a short time.
I also wanted to know how the pope faired during the plague. The pope at the time was Pope Clement VI, he stayed away from most of the sick, and he was surrounded by torches all the time. <----
thats a good idea, the extreme heat would keep the disease out. I thought it was interesting that he consulted Astronomers to find out more about the disease, and to find out how they could prevent it. I thought that the Christians did not like Astrology?
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The Thames River is the longest river in England. In 1309-1320 it froze because of the drastic weather changes (Little ice age). This map shows where the Thames River is in comparison to London.
I also found this chart
on Wikipedia. It shows the temperature change through the middle ages (showing the comparison from the little ice age to the warmer period). The Medieval Climate optimum was a warm period that came shortly before the little ice age.
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I started out finding a Map of Eurasia
This is a pretty good map, although not all the specific locations are labeled but it gives a good idea of the general area. The map in the book is best.
Also, the reading said that in the 14th century in Eurasia, the plague happened because of the fluctuating temperatures. Because the climate was relatively warm and then switched to cold, the plague came to be. Is it possible that something like this can happen again in our society?
I thought it was interesting in the reading that some Europeans and Mongols thought God was punishing them by sending the plague. I thought this was similar to how the countries getting attacked by the Mongols felt, that they were being punished. It brought forth a theme that we've seen a lot and was mentioned in the reading. The idea of "punishment for an infidel" also came up in the reading so I wanted to find out what it meant. I found out from This site
that..."The Greek word translated "infidel" is apistos, meaning "faithless, unbelieving, without faith." Some in the Messiah�s time were a "faithless and perverse generation" who refused to believe in His healing power, Matthew 17:14-21. The source of faith, He said, was prayer and fasting.
Those servants of His who refuse to believe in the soon-coming King, and live a wanton life, will be cut asunder, and punished as unbelievers, Luke 12:45-48."
Sabrina, I hate to break to you, but the map you have is of the Thames river in Canada. A more appropriate map would be this one.
You are correct that the Thames River is the longest river in England, however the Severn is also the longest river in Great Britain.
Emma, your map of Eurasia could be slightly better. For example you used the source "1984 Fictitious World Map". Hmmm..Not sure if that's the best source. Also, I looked up Eurasia on Wikipedia and it is defined as "Eurasia comprises the geo-political areas of Europe and Asia" The map that you gave did not include all of Asia, which needs to be included for the map to be of Eurasia. Just a thought.
Also, you mentioned that it might be possible for climate change to occur again in our society and this might in turn cause a massive plague. Now while, yes, we do have our fair share of bad diseases, AIDS/HIV, SARS and Bird Flu all come to mind, however, with our current level of sophistication and high standard of cleanliness, I consider it highly unlikely that we will be a plague as drastic as the bubonic plague was. Remember, the main cause of the plague was rats/fleas, but we wouldn't allow these into our houses today whereas they were allowed in Middle Ages, mainly because they found it very difficult to get rid of them. So answering your original question, no, I find it very difficult to believe that climate change would ever cause a bacterial epidemic similar to the one that we saw with the Black Plague.
As for my own questions,
1)How did the plague eventually end? I believed it was just the fact that people became immune to the disease?
2) Addressing the issue of Climate Change in the Middle Ages, could we be seeing the end of what began in the Middle Ages? The cool spell could be ending and while yes, Global Warming is probably speeding up the warming of the earth, could this overall trend be the result of this cool spell ending?
3) While plague clearing affected a good portion of the world and caused a large amount of death, overall, couldn't the plague have been good? It ended the feudal system and gave way to semi-new forms of government, so could the plague have been the catalyst for change?
Ok, I'm done ranting now, It's someone else's turn ;)
It said that there were 30,000 donkey rental businesses in the city, but what was the total population of the city?
Was the plague only in Eurasia or where there a few known cases in places far away?
How much colder did the world become?
When it said the Great drowning took 60 parishes in Denmark, what does parishes mean?
on average how long would one live with the bubonic plague?
how did the bubonic plague die out?
what percentage of people survived the bubonic plague?
I was interested in looking up more about Ibn Battuta mainly to see if he said that every city he went to he praised so highly or was it just Cairo. Ok so it wasn't just Cairo it was every city he went to unless there was a war or a plague.
I also found it interesting that meteorologists used tree rings to see that there was a climate change. what other primitive methods did they use?
After the reading, I looked on Google for some more general info on the Black Plague... and I found this pretty helpful site with some general info about the Black Plague.
I followed the link about the Flagellants because I had heard the term before... and it said that Flagellants were groups of people who traveled around and inflicted physical punishment on themselves, in order to satisfy God. This was because they thought the plague was a punishment from God. However, the Flagellants were generally shunned by the people and even the Pope.
Also, there are some pretty detailed accounts and descriptions of the Flagellants on the website. It was pretty helpful all around, because it's got a lot of information abou the Plague.
In the black death reading, I was wondering why it said that the North East suffered less? Then it said it could be due to isolation, yet could there be another reason? Would it have anything to do with trade?
How did the disease die out, and if it came back would we be able to come up with a cure?
I thought it was pretty interesting how in the book reading, it didn't really talk about the plague very much, just what happened before it. How the earth went into a "little ice age" which caused ecological problems for many of the regions that were later affected by the plague. The book also talks about the fluctuation of the temperature between "little ice ages" and periods of "global warming". (see where I'm going with this?) I think it is kind of interesting that even in a history book you can learn science and maybe we can learn from this and no over react next time people start freaking out about a natural weather fluctuation.
On another note, i do have a question about the plague! I thought it was interesting that all the religions/regions thought the heavens were punishing them for their wickedness and it made me think. If all the religions thought that their god/gods were so different from the other gods, then why did they all believe that god sent the plague to punish them? Shouldn't they have different reason?
When I was reading in the book, I ran across this sentence:
"This produces the notorious El Niño effect..."
I remembered learning about it once in eighth grade, but couldn't remember much, so I looked it up and found this Wikipedia article on it.
Apparently, as you can see in the article, it's a temperature fluctuation in the surface water of the Pacific Ocean, which causes all sorts of problems like flooding and drought.
I also found this map
of the areas it most often affects, and how it affects them.
1) I was wondering after I read this if some places avoided the plague? And if they did- how did they avoid it? I was also curious about el nino and found this definition:
El Niño is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the Tropical Pacific having important consequences for weather and climate around the globe
In the reading, it mentioned Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, a "story of seven men and three women who escape the disease by fleeing to a villa outside the city". I was interested in learning more about the writer as well as the literary work. So, I started with Wikipedia.
Some Background Info
Boccaccio was an Italian writer from Florence. His work the Decameron vividly describes the results of the Plague in Florence. During the story, one person tells a story per night at the villa. In all, 100 stories are told. This method of a people telling stories within a single story is similar to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. And on Wikipedia, it says that other writers such as Shakespeare and Chaucher were influenced by Boccaccio's Decameron.
Here's a link to a summary of of the novels. The summaries take a more analytical approach to Boccaccio's work than merely plot.
Summaries
Sorry the links didn't work when I copy/pasted. Here they are:
background info
summaries
How did El Nino affect the farmers? Why is it called El Nino? I know that it means the little boy, but I don´t think that these storms were very small.
Was there only expansion when the weather warmed? Why was this? Also, was the whole world affected by the cooling? Did people write about this cooling or do we just know about it because of the tree rings?
I wrote my paper on The Black Death, so I always thought it was an interesting topic.My paper I believe was deleted some how, but I know from research that the black death was divided into three different categories of diseases: the septicaemic plague is a form of blood poisoning, and pneumonic plague is an airborne plague that attacks the lungs before the rest of the body, bubonic plague which had buboes as a clear sign of this killer. The bubonic plague was most commonly seen, Pneumonic is the second most commonly seen, and the septicaemic plague had the worst fatality rate and would most likely kill you with in a day of the symptoms first being seen. Even today the septicaemic plague is still not treated. Less than 1% survive the septicaemic plague because its that deadly.
How big was Cairo at the time when they had 36,000 donkey rentals? this seems way high. did it mean that they had 36,000 donkey's for rent? if that wasn't the case, then does tokyo have around 36,000 car rentals? wouldn't this be a lot. or does it have 36,000 cars for rent.
What types of methods were used to try to help people with the plaque?
Did anyone survive once they got it?
How long was the average life of someone with the plaque?
RePost.. older post was deleted.
After the reading, I wondered if there were any other large-scale epidemics like this one, that killed such a massive amount of people in such a short time.
I also wanted to know how the pope faired during the plague. The pope at the time was Pope Clement VI, he stayed away from most of the sick, and he was surrounded by torches all the time. <----
thats a good idea, the extreme heat would keep the disease out. I thought it was interesting that he consulted Astronomers to find out more about the disease, and to find out how they could prevent it. I thought that the Christians did not like Astrology?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VI
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