What parts of each world suffered the brunt of the plague’s ravages?

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The Mongol conquest of the thirteenth century encouraged greater cross-cultural exchanges between the societies of Afro-Eurasia. One consequence of this contact was the spread of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, across many regions. While the impact of the plague on Western Christendom is well known today in the West, the plague’s influence on other regions is less commonly noted or understood. The first three documents offer Muslim scholars accounts of the plague within the Islamic world in the fourteenth century. The last document explores the plague in Italy. Using these sources and the knowledge you gained from reading Chapter 11, compare and contrast the impact of the plague in the Islamic World and Christendom. What parts of each world suffered the brunt of the plague’s ravages? How did these regions respond?

1. Ahmad al Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt (1453)
CREDIT: Marvin Gettleman & Stuart Schaar (eds.), “The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt” as translated by Hamid Irbouh, pp. 51-52, from The Middle East and Islamic Reader, copyright © 2003, revised edition copyright © 2012 by Marvin Gettleman and Stuart Schaar. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.

2. Ibn Khaldun on the Plague (Fourteenth Century)
CREDIT: Michael W. Dols, The Black Death in the Middle East, p. 67 Copyright © 1977 Princeton University Press, renewed 2005 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

3. Ibn Al-Wardi, “On the Advance of the Plague” (1348)
CREDIT: Joseph Patrick Byrne, Daily Life During the Black Death (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006), pp. 260-261. © 2006 Joseph P. Byrne. Reprinted by permission of ABC-CLIO.

4. The Florentine Chronicle: Rubric 643: Concerning a Mortality in the City of Florence in Which Many People Died
CREDIT: Marchione di Coppo Stefani, Cronaca Fiorentina, edited by Niccolo Rodolico, Vol. 30 of Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (Citta di Castello: S. Lapi, 1903-1913), as translated by Duane Osheim at http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/osheim/marchione.html. Reprinted by permission of Duane Osheim.

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