Part one of term paper
The population of Europe took a devastating turn during the fall of 1347. A disease had broken out, and was carried on the backs of rats who were infected by the fleas carrying the disease, which eventually was passed on to man, causing the enlargement of the lymph nodes, and eventually death, usually within three to four days. The blackis ...

Part two of term paper
... of trouble and crisis, the plague provoked problems and added new ones, and the crisis worsened. The swiftness of the disease, the terrible agony, and the grotesque appearance of the victims, all served to make the plague particularly ghastly. With the loss of about one-third of Europe’s population, serious political, social, and economic problems arose. Politically the plague didn’t have much effect on Europe. The Hundred Years’ War was being fought, and the plague added more fatalities ...