Using information from the lecture,
Identify which event listed above you believe made the biggest impact on Western Civilization.
You must choose one and only one (do not describe all three)- The Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, or the Great Western Schism.
Keep in mind that “biggest impact” may be considered negative, positive, or both.
Describe the event
State when the event occurred (I’m looking for dates or centuries)
Fully explain what caused the event (make sure to fully explain this. Some of these events have multiple causes)
Fully explain what happened during the event
Fully discuss the consequences of your chosen event.
If you discuss the Black Death, explain how it impacted the economy, art, and literature (make sure to discuss all three).
If you discuss the Hundred Years’ War, explain how it affected weapons and language.
If you discuss the Great Western Schism, explain how it impacted the religious ideas of people and respect for the pope
Fully explain why you believe the event you chose made the biggest impact.
You may refer back to some of the information you provided when describing the event to explain your choice.
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: most sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those still alive were gravely ill and covered in black boils that oozed blood and pus. Even before the “death ships” pulled into port at Messina, many Europeans had heard rumors about a “Great Pestilence” that was carving a deadly path across the trade routes of the Near and Far East. Indeed, in the early 1340s, the disease had struck China, India, Persia, Syria and Egypt.
sand and subsequently the sand trades get cash and are an infusion into their particular economy. For instance, in 2014 the USA traded about US$450 million worth of sand to different nations. Trades short Imports is a part of total interest (Promotion) and subsequently the sending out of sand increments sends out which increments Promotion. This expansion in Promotion brought about by expanding sand sends out is portrayed on Figure 4. Promotion builds because of the improvement in the exchange balance (trades – imports) and extends and moves to one side from Advertisement to AD2. This makes the genuine Gross domestic product of the economy increment from Y1 to Y2 hence financial development has happened because of sand mining and is just expanding as sand mining expansions in these nations. Consequently, possibly expanding the ways of life in these nations.
Figure 4
Moreover, sand mining gives occupations on a nearby scale, which in this manner assists with bringing down joblessness and consequently expanding the result of the economy and costing the public authority less on paying for individuals without occupations. Albeit these are great transient nearby advantages, in the drawn out sand is a scant asset and its stock is decreasing. This will imply that economies that have enormous amounts of sand products will be impacted over the long haul as the stockpile of sand diminishes and the previously mentioned positive effects on the economy will be switched as their sand mining enterprises lessen.
Despite the fact that it can have a few positive impactions, a large number of the ramifications are negative. On a financial level, the sand mining can decrease the travel industry. Many sand mines are arranged on streams or ocean beds, the sea shores are provided by the dregs, for example, sand that is shipped by these streams. Sand mining diminishes the amount of sand in a space and thusly less sand is shipped and at last provided to the sea shores. Hence the sea shores contract and the vacation spot is lost. The deficiency of the travel industry can meaningfully affect the genuine Gross domestic product of a country particularly nations with a huge tertiary area. Sea shores themselves can likewise be utilized as a wellspring of sand and are incidentally frequently used to construct foundation for the travel industry while obliterating the vacation spot. Extraction of sand from sea shores is generally done illicitly.
Social
Social ramifications of the furious interest for this regular asset come in many structures. First and foremost, the ravenous interest for sand has prompted the development of sand mafias across the world. These posses are very risky and have shaped with the point of unlawfully stripping sand from sea shores and streams around midnight. The Indian sand mafia is likely the most famous. It is assessed that unlawful sand mining in India is worth about $2.3billion. As well as this cash not being accounted for and subsequently not burdened by the public authority, the sand mafias bring other adverse consequences like the maltreatment of basic liberties. An illustration of a denial of basic freedoms from the Indian sand mafia was in 2004 they gone after and mishandled Sumaira Abdulali, a spectator who had seen her neighborhood ocean side contracting and chose to take a stand in opposition to it. This w