The disease spread from nation to nation, killing millions of people and seriously affecting their lives especially Britain. It is thought to be one of the most devastating plagues in human history. It is thought to have begun in the mid 1340’s in China, caused by dirty rodents who had infected fleas. The fleas travelled through Asia and lived on Rats and all sorts of other creatures. Some of these creatures became passengers on merchant ships that sailed to Europe.
Symptoms would include red, grossly inflamed and swollen lymph nodes, called buboes (hence the name bubonic), high fever, delirium, and convulsions. However, if the bacterial infection spread to the lungs (pneumonic plague) or to the bloodstream (septicemic plague) the unfortunate victim would certainly die, usually within hours with symptoms too horrific to recount. The Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Dekker wrote a chilling account of the chaos and despair brought by the plague: Imagine then that all this while, Death (like a Spanish Leagar, or rather like stalking Tamberlaine) hath pitched his tents, (being nothing but a heape of winding sheets tacked together) in the sinfully-polluted Suburbes: the Plague is Muster-maister and Marshall of the field: Burning Feauers, Boyles, Blaines, and Carbuncles, the Leaders, Lieutenants, Serieants, and Corporalls: the maine Army consisting (like Dunkirke) of a mingle-mangle, viz. dumpish Mourners, merry Sextons, hungry Coffin-sellers, scrubbing Bearers, and nastie Graue-makers: but indeed they are the Pioners of the Campe, that are imployed onely (like Moles) in casting up of
In the Bible, they are considered the 10 plagues, the 10th being the Passover. The first plague was a plague of blood. The Lord commanded Moses and Aaron and to strike the water of the Nile River and he would turn all of the water in Egypt into blood. Even the water stored in wooden bowls and stone pots turned to blood. The second plague was a plague of frogs.
One historical period of Judaism would be the 10 plagues of Egypt and the Exodus, in which the Jews where slaves of the Egyptians and god manipulates nature to teach the egyptians about god as well for the enslavement of the Jew and to save the Jews from their suffering. The 10 plagues in order were, Turning water to blood, Brought forth an abundance of frogs on their lands, He created pest called lice, swarms of flies, then their livestock came down with disease, boils on the people of egypt, thunder and hail was brought forth by god, swarms of locusts, then darkness was brought forth over the land, and finally the Angel of Death came down and killed all the first born sons of the egyptian people. The reason these 10 plagues are significant is because, after Moses and Aaron repeatedly went to the Pharaoh to let the jews go to celebrate their god the pharaoh kept saying no doubting that their god existed. After these plagues the jews made the Exodus leaving the grasp of the Egyptians as their
Scene 1: The Introduction (Lights are dim, scary music is playing in the background.) Narrator 1: Let me tell you a story of a war between the monstrous insects and the humans at the border of North and South Dakota. Narrator 2: It is a scary time for the insects as many of them are dying each day because they are being attacked by deadly missile launches from the humans in North Dakota. (They both quietly exit out of the stage.) Scene 2: The War Has Begun (Setting is a cold and gloomy night in the forest in South Dakota.
Atrahasis was instructed to fill the boat with animals. When the storm destroyed all mankind except Atrahasis and his family, it was very upsetting to the goddess Nintu. The bodies of the dead, Nintu said, “clog the river like dragonflies.” (Dalley 33) The flood lasts 7 days and 7 nights. When the flood is over Atrahasis exits the boat and offers a sacrifice to the gods, which they devoured eagerly,
Another terrible problem was the rats. There were literally millions of rats running around the trenches. They fed on the dead remains of the soldiers and could grow to the size of a rat. These rats carried many diseases that killed many of the men there as well. Lice were another dilemma in the trenches.
It is an unfortunate incident, only to become even more devastating to the Christian peoples. The Armenians, the Pontic Greeks, and the Assyrians were all forced from their homes by gunpoint and made to march all day. They left their homes in the lush, green lands into the exceedingly hot, dry desert with very little food and water to survive. The combination of intense climate change, malnutrition, dehydration, disease, and violence led to thousands of these people dying during the marches. One of the most moving accounts of this atrocity is Thea Halo’s Not Even My Name.
Enslaved by the Pharaoh of Egypt, life for the Israelites was of poor quality, as they cried out to God to save them. Moses was sent by Yahweh to free the Israelites from Egypt, and after ten plagues upon the Egyptians, the Pharaoh allowed for the freeing of the slaves to happen. Led by Moses, the Exodus from Egypt took many years, and the Pharaoh only allowed for this to go on for a short time, until he decided that he would “pursue the fleeing slaves.” Many incidents are said to have occurred during this escape; one most notable incident being the opening of the Red Sea. According to Exodus 1-14, as the Israelites approached the Red Sea, the waves parted for them allowing them to escape as the waves drowned the Egyptians. The Israelites were then free from slavery and finally made it out of Egypt.
The Ukrainians ate anything they could get their hands on. They ate the leaves off of bushes and trees, killed dogs, cats, frogs, mice and birds hen cooked them. Others, gone mad with hunger, resorted to cannibalism, with parents sometimes even eating their own children.