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Feudalism: Sufferers Of The Great Chain Of Being

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Feudalism was needed because of the circumstances, and that meant that several things sparked the development of feudalism. The first reason that the system feudalism started was because of the increased need for a military in order to protect the vulnerable people (Lenehan). Feudalism started to develop when the Western Roman Empire fell, and the Barbarians and Muslims became more of a threat to the people that were left without a society and a group to protect them (Lenehan). People started solving this need for a military and developing feudalism when a group of farmers were brought together in order to help a knight (Lenehan). The Great Chain of Being also helped feudalism develop (Lenehan). The Great Chain of Being was the idea …show more content…

The first signs and symptoms you would tend to notice when you were infected with the Black Death were your limbs would start to ache and you would start to vomit blood (Pizzuto). If you were infected with the bubonic form of the Black Death, your skin would start to turn a gray color. The plague would cause your lymph nodes to swell and eventually burst on various parts of your body, including your neck, groin, and armpits (Pizzuto). A little bit after you were infected, the general symptoms include fevers, an inability to digest your food, continuous vomiting, delirium, being covered in black boils filled with bodily fluids such as blood and pus (which tended to be the size of eggs and apples), and lastly death (History.com Staff). Humans were not the only ones who could contract the plague. The Black Death continued to kill bovine (cows), sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens (History.com Staff). Even babies and newborns were commonly getting the plague and usually died suffering more than grown people because of their underdeveloped immune system (Butler). The plague acted fast and could kill you straight away, and the symptoms made the suffering even worse and harder to

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