CAS HI 214 Lecture 4: Piracy 4.docx
12 Nov 2014
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Catholic pirates and greek merchants by molly green. Reason why so many cathedrals, etc. built because even during economic decline, 1% does pretty well; in fact, can make their position even stronger if they are manipulative enough . Huge bifurcation between small amount of people on top and the rest of the people. Bacteria, carried by fleas (immune), carried by rats (partial immunity) Never existed in europe, people didn"t have any antibodies or natural biological means to fight it off; horrifying deadly force. Lands first in sicily and spreads out from there; in 2 years, wipes out 1/3 of europe and. Cities swell as poor homeless people come in; enormously overcrowded. Wherever human beings lived, the human and rat population are usually the same size disease hits and these are perfect circumstances for disease to have maximum effect kills really fast. Knew the disease came from rats but didn"t know how to get rid of them.
