Chapter 10 1. What were the causes and results of the Black Death, the peasant revolts, and the Hundred Years' War? The cause of the Black Plague was trade. It originated in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia where it was common among the rodents and fleas there. One of the animals carried it to China and from there it spread around the sea routes and then moved inward. Once contracted, a person died within a week. Because …
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…life during this time. 4) Compare and contrast Italian civic humanism with northern Christian humanism. They both sought scholasticism but the northerners looked to the bible and religious teachings rather then philosophical teachings like the Italians. They both took ideals from antiquity but northerners looked to the New Testament times as opposed to the Italians looking at the classical times. They both created new art but northerners didn't use nudes or as much classical subject matter.