HIST109 USC History Of The United States Since 1865 Discussion

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Of the People: A History of the United States since 1865. By Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis. Volume 2: 4th edition.
ISBN:9780190909970
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Chapter 15
A)Was Reconstruction successful? Why or why not?
B)What visions of freedom did former slaves and slaveholders pursue in the south?
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Question: How profound was the Black Death? How did it impact daily life, dismantle global economies, and weaken political structures?
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Due to the Black Death, “population densities did not recover for 200 year?” (Pollard 384). The Black Death caused chaos among communities, trashed economies, and killed millions of people. “25 to 65 percent of infected population?” were killed (Pollard 386).
In China, the Black Death completely devastated the Mongol Empire. This enabled “dissident religious sect?” to “undercu?” the last Yuan Mongol rulers (Pollard 388). Chinese religious movements such as the Red Turban Movement caused folks to change their everyday lives by abiding to “dietary restrictions, penance, and ceremonial rituals. (please provide an example. Paragraph needs additional info)
In Islam, the plague left the Islamic world in a state of near political and economical collapse. City infrastructure was becoming destroyed, tribes weakened, and livestock perished. (needs more info)
In Europe, all were at risk of disease, from aristocracy to peasants, especially those in crowded cities. 50-80 million of Europe’s population perished in just four years. The Black Death caused Europeans to adopt mischievous habits. “Europeans turned to debauchery, determined to enjoy themselves before they die?” (Pollard 388). Others turned to religion outside of church, feeling betrayed. While others turned against themselves, individually. This group of people are known as “Flagellants, who were so convinced that man had incurred God’s wrath that they whipped themselves to atone for human si?” (Primary Source A). Post-plague, many peasants turned against the clergy. Shortages of food led to an inflation of prices as well as an inflation of unrest.
What changed were mainly the political regimes, which took the blame for the catastrophes. The Yuan dynasty collapsed and regimes in the Muslim world and Western Christendom were replaced by new political forms. In contrast, universal religions and cultural systems persisted even though they underwent vast transformations.
What allowed it to facilitate at the speed it did?
What allowed the Black Death to move at the rapid speed it did was “climatic change?” and trade. The Little Ice Age that preceded the Black Death may have weakened populations’ immune systems and made them “vulnerable to the diseas?” (Primary Source: Letter). This Little Ice Age caused “shortened seasons and ruined harvests.” This famine lasted for seven years and millions died of starvation or were left extremely malnourished, set up for an atrocious plague. The drying up of central Asian steppe borderlands also was a contributing factor of the plague, forcing disease-carrying rodents out of their “dwelling places and into pastoral people?” backyards. Fleas transferred from rodent-to-victim and sometimes killed victims overnight.
However, it was the prosperous trading networks that really set the Afro Eurasian landmass on fire with disease. “This wider Afro-Eurasian population was vulnerable because its members had no immunities to the diseas?” (Pollard 405). Starting in rural China in 1320, the disease ravaged through towns, especially seaports, thanks to trading networks. “Many routes terminated at the Italian port cities, where ships with dead and dying people aboard arrived in 1347. From there, what Europeans called the Pestilence or the Great Mortality engulfed