History

Melany Maddox

2 February, 22:34

Which statement does not accurately describe the Black Death that struck Europe in the fourteenth century?

A.

The plague is thought to have been carried to Europe from Central Asia on trading ships and transmitted by fleas on rats.

B.

Most people in Europe at that time believed that the plague was God's judgment upon the sins of humankind.

C.

On feudal manors, so many peasants died that labor became scarce and the old social order began to fall apart.

D.

The effects of the plague stopped all advancements in science and medicine for the next two centuries.