I remember learning this, it should be A
The answer should either be Sanction or Embargo.
The terrible sewer and water system that was infecting countless people by diseases like typhoid. <span />
For Plato students the answer is
C. Earth is at the center of the universe and the Sun revolves around it.
As they did not understand the biology of the disease, many people believe that the black death was a kind of divine punishment retribution for sins against god such as greed, blasphemy, heresy, fornication and worldliness. By this logic, the only way to overcome the plague was to win God‘s forgiveness.