Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Another familiar disease is malaria, which Elizabethans
refer to as ague or fever. You might associate this with more tropical countries of the modern world but in marshy areas in sixteenth-century England, such as the Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire Fens, the Norfolk Broads, and Romney Marsh in Kent, it kills thousands. No one suspects that it has anything to do with mosquitoes; rather people believe it is the corrupted air arising from the low-lying dank marsh (hence the term mal-aria). As a result, you will have no chance of getting proper treatment for the disease. How does the paragraph expand on the central idea that malaria was a deadly disease in Elizabethan England
The paragraph expands the misconception held by Elizabethan England concerning malaria.
Explanation:
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England is a book written by Ian Mortimer. The book gives a detailed description about Elizabethan lifestyle in England. The book was published in March 2012.
In the given excerpt, the author is shows that how Elizabethans hold on to the misconception regarding malaria. The people thought that the infection spread because of bad air coming from the dark marsh at lower levels. Due to this misconception, the people were not able to bring a proper treatment for it.
Therefore, the author expands the central idea by drawing attention to the misconception held by Elizabethan England concerning malaria.
