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The black death in europe killed off 1/3 of the population, it impacted religion in a way because many people believed it was gods punishment for sin. in 1347, 200 million were dead in the span of just four years
<span>The Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time in eighteen years.</span>
Although Locke and Rousseau wrote prominent treatises on the social contract, Thomas Hobbes introduced the idea of it. He argued that human beings were evil in nature, and thus needed to enter a contract in which everyone basically agreed not to kill each other (i.e. in his natural state, although completely free, man would always be wary of subjected to another man's brutishness. Whereas in society we are all supposedly better off-even if there are sacrifices involved-because there is an agreement binding each man into behavior that's meant to contain man's evil nature).