Plagues And Peoples
The Black Death: Nature’s Way of Saying We Are Doing It Wrong
Throughout the known world, the human race has been inhabited by disease. For centuries, groups of people have struggled to adapt and create balances between themselves and diseases. Disease not only affects the populations of large areas, but creates wars, puts pressure on global resources, and causes many groups of people to lose sight of their beliefs in the hopes that there will be an answer somewhere else. Many scholars speculate that it was the Mongols who are responsible for the spread of plague to Eurasia. In the reading of sources and documents, one can certainly see why the Mongols are to blame. Because of the Mongols’ organizational structures, the Black Death spread throughout Eurasia, and reeked havoc on the economic, religious, and social life of Europe.
The Mongols were nomadic people from the steppe lands of Central Asia. Towards the end of the thirteenth century, the Mongols had......
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