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Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Black Death Tasks

In Hurumanu 3, Chaos, we start to regain a better understanding of the environment and the state of Europe in that era. Much like how it is represented in movies, shows, having kings and queens, castles, villages; there were of course peasants, clergy, knights, etc. It wasn't such a technological civilization like we are now, going to church and religion was forced upon people, which does still happen today but not of a global scale. To understand peasant back in the day, farming services and work is from and given to much higher nobles in return they will be given protection. To put it simply the duty that they give from the peasants to the nobles were work for the king. Houses weren't what is like in this era, as houses generally didn't have electricity, faucets, etc. Strips of land were given to each home and each village had its own church which was needed attending as ordered by the priest, and thus must obey or punishment will be given this.
Moving from the environment we look again at the crisis, it had some very fundamental reasons why it became so massive. Hygiene wasn't amazing nor good, it very poor, it was a miracle to pass your thirties, a bath was almost nonexistent, now think of washing hands!  
It was then theorized by Plague "Doctors" that it was caused by the air, unbeknownst to them it was caused by fleas that thrived on rats.  The suit that the "Doctors" wore would've worked, the bad thing they forgot to cover the ankle and have placed air holes in the "beak".  The lack of hygiene, technology has resulted in an extreme spread of this disease, a somewhat inevitable fate...

Here we were tasked with drawing a what our houses might've looked like in that era, including some strips of land:





With the previous task, we were tasked to draw a picture of a Clergy from a description that was given to us (I have tried to use a medieval style drawing, flat/2D and simple):


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