Black Death Dbq

During the time when the Black Plague struck there were two main religions in the world, Christianity and Islam. Christianity follows the teachings of Jesus Christ, God’s son. The book of the Christian is the Bible. The religion of Islam deals with submission to God, and following the teachings of Mohammed, which are spelled out in the Koran (The DBQ Project, Background Essay). An interesting topic that one might discover of this time is, how did these two religions react to the plague. Could it be possible that they acted as everyone else did at that time, or did they hold strong to their beliefs? When they Black Plague struck, the Christians and the Muslims had similar ways of dealing and responding to it.

Christian and Muslim responses to the Black Death. Indeed the Christian and Muslims specifically believed it was a punishment from God. For instance the muslims on the other hand thought if it was from God it has to be good. The christian people believed that God was punishing them for sinning. The plague killed 25 - 45% of the populations it came in contact with. They both had some similarities in trying to prevent the Christians and Muslims from getting the Black Death.

During the fourteenth century a disease ravaged across the middle east that calculated up to fifty million deaths and impoverished half of Europe. This disastrous disease had attained the nick-name, “Black Death”, referring to its high fatality rate. The plague, as some may call it, scattered amongst the whole world taking many lives because of the lack of medical attention or treatment and is even still around till this day. The Black Death is best understood through its symptoms, treatments, and death toll changing life in the fourteenth century.

For the Muslims’ point of view Muhammad al-Manbiji stated that “… a Muslim should devoutly accept the divine act.” The way Muslims wanted to cure the disease was to simply accept the fact that it was there. They didn’t want to tamper with God but instead move on and continue their life. After a while of the plague not disappearing, a lot of people of different religions were starting to get desperate. Ibn Battuta wrote “The entire population of the city (of Damascus) joined… (all) of them in tears… imploring the favor of God through His Books and His Prophets.” (doc. 9) Finally, after not a lot was happening to keep the Black Death away, Muslims, Christians and Jews alike were getting together in order to find a way to cure themselves from the plague. Although they ended up getting together in order to see what would work, Muslims’ responses were still as a whole more peaceful and calm than that of the Christians.

As a result of the Black Death, Europeans rebelled while Empires of Islam did not react unmanageably. As the disease became increasingly prominent, Europeans acted rebelliously. According to William Dene, a European chronicler, laborers and skilled workmen had such a spirit of rebellion that no higher authority could curb them (Document 6). This demonstrates how the Black Death changed the lifestyle of Europeans, causing people to resort to problematic alternatives for survival. Muslims, however, did not rebel in any way. Michael Dols stated there was no evidence of messianic movements within the Muslim society associated with the disease, unlike Europeans (Document 10). This shows that Islamic empires respected authority and did not rebel, as opposed to the Europeans. In contrast to the Muslims, who respected authority and remained peaceful during the Black Death, Europeans became defiant and rebellious.

The Black Death was one of the worst pandemics in history. The disease ravaged Europe, Western Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa between 1346 and 1353 (Horrox 1994). It is difficult to understand the reality of such a devastating event, especially given the fact that science during the middle ages was severely underdeveloped. No one knew about bacteria, viruses, or other microbial agents of disease (Benedictow 2004). They had no way of protecting themselves during that time and no one was safe from the effects of the plague. Those who wrote chronicles claimed that only a tenth of the population had survived, while others claimed that half to a third of the population was left alive (Horrox 1994). In 1351, agents for Pope Clement VI predicted the number of deaths in Europe to be 23,840,000 (Gottfried 1983). Obviously, not all regions experienced the same mortality rates, but modern estimates of the death rate in England give the first outbreak a mortality rate of about forty-eight percent (Horrox 1994). That is, England lost half of its population in about a year and a half. Clearly the chroniclers ' who claimed that ninety percent of the population had died were overstating the magnitude of the plague, but this overemphasis demonstrates how terrifying the pandemic was to those who experienced it (Horrox 1994). The Black Death had huge consequences on the lives of those who were impacted directly, as well as major religious and cultural effects that came afterward.

As a result of the Black Death, Christians and Muslims were the major religions to respond to this event. One would still say, people do not know much about the Bubonic plague. To repeat, Christians were the ones to take this event to the next level, when they started burning the Jews. Muslims just thought of it has a blessing. Muslims was the ones to bring all ethnic groups together in worship and prayer after the plague. Readers would think of it has help to one another or more like allies. For this it proves that religions respond to things different than

The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a rapid infectious outbreak that swept over Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s resulting in the death of millions of people. Tentatively, this disease started in the Eastern parts of Asia, and it eventually made its way over to Europe by way of trade routes. Fever and “dark despair” characterized this plague. The highly contagious sickness displayed many flu-like symptoms, and the victim’s lymph nodes would quickly become infected. The contamination resulted in a colossal and rapid spread of the disease within one person’s body. Due to the lack of medical knowledge and physicians, there was little that people could do to save those dying all around them. Now that a better understanding of

As was we all know that The Black Death is one of the tragic events in world history and it has effected many civilizations in early 1300s. This has made many devastating trends within Europe’s borders and raged with many diseases, and other infections. Not only this pandemic event has effected many people, but it has transform Europe’ political, religious, and cultural practices. The Black Death became an outbreak and painful change to western civilization in which it marked history

The word “plague” is defined as a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, typically with the formation of buboes, and sometimes infection of the lungs. The article entitled, “On the Progress of the Black Death”, written by Jean de Venette, a French Carmelite friar who was a leading clergyman around Paris at the time of the Black Death, is a well-known account of the spread of the plague in Northern Europe. In this account, Jean de Venette explained the history of the plague, its causes and its consequences.

Many lives were lost during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague or the Black Death in the fourteenth century. During this time religion was a critical need in the lives of humans and many people in a certain religion reacted differently. A perfect example of this would be the Christian and the Islams. According to the 2010 DBQ Document of World History, one can conclude that the responses of the Christian and Islam were not very similar. They are different because each religion believed that the disease came from different origin, each one sought different practices of preventing the disease, and the living of each religion responded differently to the plague, and their actions during the outbreak.

The Black Plague or Black Death was an outbreak of a disease that was spread through rats, feces, fleas, and physical contact. The epidemic began in China, where, during wars, soldiers hurled infected bodies at Italian soldiers, consequently the physical contact. The Italians would go back home on their ships, which was infested with rats and fleas. Unknowingly, they would spread the newfound disease amongst those they came into contact with when they returned to Italy. In the spring of 1348, the disease reached Italy and began to spread like wildfire. Three years later, the Plague had already taken 25%-50% of Europe’s population. The Black Plague was so devastating due to the ignorance of it, trade routes, and fear.

During the time of the second pandemic in Europe, most commonly known as the Black Death, religion has played a big part in people’s lives. Different views, opinions, and approaches where practiced not only by the predominant Christian culture at that time, but also by other religious sectors, such as Islam. In the books Plagues in World History and The Black Death, by John Aberth, the diverse reception, both hopeful and adverse, to the pandemic was explored and discussed for better understanding of the religious structure of the time. The aim of this paper is to examine and discuss those different religious responses and changes during the Black Death of the 14th century. This will be done by doing explaining detailed actions of different

Since the epidemic caused so many deaths, the Christians submitted to sin, while Muslims prayed more and performed their regular activities while physically holding their religious text, the Quran (Document 6, Document 9). Unlike Christians, Muslims kept performing their religious duties and did not abandon their religion. Like Muslims, Christians also believed that the black death was a punishment from god for their sins (Document 4). Next, Christians used the Jews as their scapegoat and blamed them for poisoning the wells and giving them the black death (Document 7). This lead to the burning and dreadful deaths of many Jews (Document 7). This was in complete contrast to Muslims, who let Jews and Christians pray peacefully and even worshiped in their areas(Document 9). The Christians blamed both God and the Jews, while Muslims remained peaceful and only blamed God. Muslims tended to act less aggressively than the Christians in how they did not abandon their religion or blame others. In conclusion, Christians and Muslims responded very differently to the black death, in how they and in how they carried on with their religious

The Bubonic Plague, known more commonly as the Black Death, was a fatal disease that ravaged Asia and Europe during the mid-14th century. Although the destruction the Plague brought upon Europe in terms of deaths was enormous, the Islamic world arguably suffered more due to the fact that plague epidemics continually returned to the Islamic world up until the 19th century. The recurrence of the disease caused Muslim populations to never recover from the losses suffered and a resulting demographic shift that arguably helped Europe to surpass the Islamic world's previous superiority in scholarship.