The nursery rhyme, "Ring Around the Rosie" is said to have its origins with the Black Death. A "rosy" rash would appear as a symptom, then people carried posies, a type of herb as protection to ward off the smell of the disease. Sneezing, coughing, and wheezing until "one falls down" was the final stage before death. To demonstrate what you have learned about the Black Death, complete one of the following:

Construct a series of stanzas of a poem (like the nursery rhyme) on the origins and spread of the Black Death.

describes “Five London Nursery Rhymes Depicting Death and Ruin.” The rhymes in question have diverse origins and histories, but what seems incontrovertible from James FitzGerald’s work is that they describe dark and portentous matters from English history.

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.