Question

How does the author's discussion of different death rates help readers understan

spread of the Black Death? Use evidence from the text in your response.

Answer 1

The discussion on mortality shows that humans were more responsible for deaths from the Black Death than rats.

Step-by-step explanation:

This question is about the article "Don’t Blame the Rats for Spreading the Black Death," where we are introduced to a group of scientists investigating the proliferation and effects of Black Death in medieval Europe.

In that article, when studying mortality rates in relation to the means of transmission of the disease, scientists came to the conclusion that fleas and lice from humans were more responsible for the fatal infection of the disease than fleas and lice from rats. Thus, it is possible to conclude that, although the disease originated in the rat, humans were the main transmitters and not the mice.