THE BLACK DEATH The Black Death: How Different Were the Christian and Muslim Responses? In 1346 European traders began to hear reports about earthquakes, floods, locusts, famine, and plague in faraway
THE BLACK DEATH The Black Death: How Different Were the Christian and Muslim Responses? In 1346 European traders began to hear reports about earthquakes, floods, locusts, famine, and plague in faraway
THE BLACK DEATH
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The Black Death: How Different Were the Christian and Muslim Responses? In 1346 European traders began to hear reports about earthquakes, floods, locusts, famine, and plague in faraway China. They knew very little then that the plague they were hearing about would follow the same trade routes to the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe that they themselves used. In five short years, the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the populations it encountered. So how different were the Christian and Muslim responses? In 1348 Christianity and Islam came face to face with the Black Death. In truth, Muslims and Christians responded in many different ways. Their ideas for what caused the Black Death were somewhat different from each other also. Even the way they thought they could cure the disease