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The Plague In The Renaissance Age

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This source argues that Black Death has been falsely attributed to the wrong bacteria and that messes up our understanding of the epidemic and the Renaissance age. It explains why it was falsely attributed and how Black Death was actually cause by many diseases. It goes on into the medical perspective explaining that how not all research shows that everyone suffered from the same Black Death diseases that killed many. There were other plagues as well causing people to suffer and die during those times. This source also argues that there some good that came out of the plague specifically seen in the Renaissance age. The Renaissance age was a time of new ideas and complete different way of looking at things and this source attributes

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