C) hunting rituals, magic charms, and belief in spirits.
B. If you look at the dates, the earliest instance of the plague started in the south. Then, it continues to spread upwards and to the west, and the dates continue chronologically, from 1347 to 1349.
Without a checks and balances system in place, any branch of government could <span>run amok without supervision</span>
One factor was barbed wire. As farmers and ranchers wisened up, they used the wire to fence in their cattle, destroying the use of cowboys, and taking away one aspect of the "wide open west". Herds of cattle took over the plains and destroyed the grass. In 1883 the big drought struck and water streams dried up and prairie fires grazed. Also the barbed wire and the natural disasters.
The scientist who thought that the earth was the center of the universe was Nicolas Copernicus