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Medieval people and doctors were not certain what caused the plague, but believed it could be the result of: the movements of the planets. a punishment from God. bad smells and corrupt air.
Water was preferred to land when transporting heavy cargo to avoid the<span>destruction of roads.
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South Carolina was the state that felt they could nullify the Tariff of 1832 and other acts of Congress. This is because them together with most of the Southern states felt like the Tariff passed by Congress in 1828 was to high and would only benefit the more industrialized Northern states.
Shakespeare's plays are all about questioning authority: kings are deposed; bad people (Iago) triump over good ones (Cassio); your parents don't always know best (the behaviour of the parents in Romeo and Juliet is the cause of all the trouble).
In the Middle Ages people had a general sense that God was in his heaven, and all was right with the world. In the Renaissance people started to ask if that was true.
Shakespeare is always asking difficult questions, which is a very Renaissance thing to do. And he never makes any direct reference to Christian faith in any of his plays:- religious doubt was also a very Renaissance characteristic.
