Superstitions allotted the black death to the Devil.
According to superstitious people, the Black Death was caused by the Devil himself. The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, refers to a series of pandemic diseases which took the lives of almost 200 million people in Eurasia over the years from 1347 to 1351. The actual cause of the plague was the lack of hygiene, helped by the outbreak of <em>Yersinia pestis</em>, bacteria carried by rats, rather than Satan himself, as was commonly believed.
<u>Plight of the plebeians:</u>
Plebeians in the ancient Rome were people who were not the members of any of the classes ( which were patrician, senatorial and the equestrian classes) and were free citizens.
This section of ancient Rome included the normal working classes of the society like the the farmers, peasants, bakers or the builders.
The plebeians were responsible for having weakening the roman republic because of the struggle that they had with the patricians who were the aristocrats. They wanted equal status compared with the patricians.
