Richard Eaton, United States historian of South Asia, Islamic History as Global History, 1990. This was especially true for cotton, whose diffusion in Africa directly paralleled the spread of Islam itself." Other crops passed by ship from southern Arabia to East Africa, while still others moved by caravan from northwest Africa across the Sahara to tropical West Africa. From Iraq, many of these crops then spread westward all the way to Muslim Spain, which was transformed into a veritable garden under Muslim rule. These included staple crops such as hard wheat, rice, sugarcane, and new varieties of sorghum fruits such as banana, sour orange, lemon, lime, mango, watermelon, and the coconut palm vegetables such as spinach, artichoke, and eggplant and the key industrial crop, cotton. "Between the eighth and tenth centuries Arabs brought back from India a variety of crops that they then began cultivating in the Middle East. The following question(s) refer to the passage below.
Moreover, even after all the Jews in many places had been killed and were completely driven out for nearly two years prior, the disease now strikes these same places just as powerfully as before."Ĭonrad of Megenberg, German philosopher and theologian educated at the University of Paris, Concerning the Mortality in Germany, book written in Latin, 1350Ī) Describe the historical situation in which Conrad of Megenberg wrote his book.ī) Describe ONE argument that Conrad of Megenberg makes regarding the Jewish people and the spread of disease.Ĭ) Describe ONE way in which the disease referred to in the passage influenced the development of urban areas in the period 1350-1450. Further, in cities that use water only from great rivers like the Danube, the inhabitants have also died in large numbers. This also seems doubtful, because after the wells full of polluted water had been purified, the people still died in great numbers. Second, many people say that the Jews poisoned the wells, causing the disease.
If they really caused the epidemic, they would not have killed themselves and others of their faith. My reasoning is as follows.įirst, it is well-known that in most places where the Jewish people dwelled, they died in droves from the exact same disease as the Christians. "It does not seem to me that the Jewish people can be the cause of this general epidemic throughout the whole world, as many suggest.
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