Plagues are bad
Welcome to the third day of cyber school. To be honest, I thought it would be a lot easier the regular school. Turns out, I was wrong. For some reason I feel even more stressed out at home than regular school. Hopefully I will get more comfortable with cyber school as the week goes on. Here is my blog:
Pericles’ strategy for defeating the Spartans was to wait for fleet ships. The city would rely on fleet ships that carried shipments from overseas to survive. However, this was a huge mistake! One year into the war, some grain ships (that fed the city) brought more than just food with them. The people on these fleet ships had the plague! They brought the plague to Athens and things went horribly wrong very quickly. Athen's people were all behind city walls. There was no way to contain this plague. The symptoms included inflammation of the eyes, fever, violent ulceration, and diarrhea. The symptoms were so intense that people would crawl into water systems to drink and end up dying. People decided that religion and "believing in something" was pointless because they were just going to die anyway. The plague ended up killing over 1/3 of Athen's population, including Pericles. He tried potions and magic to heal himself, but nothing worked. He died in 429 B.C. Athens was left with no ruler. Many tried anything they could to become leader and were prepared to do anything the people wanted if that meant more power. Does this mean mob rule....??????
Pericles’ strategy for defeating the Spartans was to wait for fleet ships. The city would rely on fleet ships that carried shipments from overseas to survive. However, this was a huge mistake! One year into the war, some grain ships (that fed the city) brought more than just food with them. The people on these fleet ships had the plague! They brought the plague to Athens and things went horribly wrong very quickly. Athen's people were all behind city walls. There was no way to contain this plague. The symptoms included inflammation of the eyes, fever, violent ulceration, and diarrhea. The symptoms were so intense that people would crawl into water systems to drink and end up dying. People decided that religion and "believing in something" was pointless because they were just going to die anyway. The plague ended up killing over 1/3 of Athen's population, including Pericles. He tried potions and magic to heal himself, but nothing worked. He died in 429 B.C. Athens was left with no ruler. Many tried anything they could to become leader and were prepared to do anything the people wanted if that meant more power. Does this mean mob rule....??????
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