Intro to Part Three & Ch 7 (Commerce & Culture)

What I thought was most interesting in this chapter was the disease in transit. I thought it was intrusion to read how much a disease affects lots of people. It's says how people were exposed to unfamiliar diseases for which they had little immunity or few effective methods of coping. Which when I read this I wasn't surprised because I could believe that it would have been extremely hard to help yourself with protecting yourself from these disease because these people probably didn't have resources like we have today to help themselves from those diseases. It said how the epidemics that followed often brought suffering and death on an enormous scale to rich and poor alike. which I thought was surprising to like the rich and poor were both having the same outcome of deaths just because I would think the rich would have had some resources to prevent them form death. The disease spreading were smallpox, measles, devastated the populations of both empires, contributing to their political collapse. There was also a outbreak of the plague ravaged the coastal areas of the Mediterranean Sea as the black rats that carried the disease arrived via the seaborne trade with India, where they originally lived. I thought that this was so bad for these people because how much trouble they were in with all the different types of disease. The most well-known disease that was so disseminated was associated with the mongol empire which spread the black death. It spread the plague, anthrax, and epidemic diseases from china to Europe. I felt so bad for them men women and children who had to go through all these different types of disease I would haven't survived.

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