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The Western Experience book cover
The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague

Essay Quiz



1

What do you think it would have been like to be a survivor of the plague? Discuss the different ways in which the experience would affect you materially and emotionally.

2

If a series of plagues and famines struck this country today, how do you think the people would react? What would the consequences be? Do you think there would be an experience parallel to that in fourteenth-century Europe? Why?

3

If England had been more successful militarily in the Hundred Years' Wars, do you think it might have maintained control over much of France for a long time? Why?

4

At times, it appeared that the Ottoman Turks might sweep through Europe. Suppose that happened. How do you think it might have changed the development of Europe?









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