The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Hundreds of thousands of people suffered a painful death that drastically reduced the population in and across Europe. A disease so deadly and so quick to spread and which was greatly sacred to the people of that time. Nothing like this had ever been encountered in the past. People have looked for many explanations for this pandemic and, to date, none have been found. The biggest differences in opinions about the cause were influenced by religion. At the time the Black Death was spreading, the main religions were Christian and Muslim. Followers of these religions had very divergent opinions on why this terrible disease was plaguing their cities and what remedies could cure it. The first document shows how the Black Death spread throughout the Middle East. It infected Egypt, Italy and Rome, then England and Germany. The only area spared is the Sahara Desert. A frightening aspect of this scourge was the speed with which it spread. It began in Balasagun in 1338 and spread to England in 1349 and Germany in 1350. The only similarity between the situations of Christians and Muslims was the number of deaths. The second document shows that the death rates of Christians in Europe and Muslims in the Middle East were very close, with only a two percent difference. Although these two religions dealt with the Black Death in very different ways, the two outcomes were ultimately about the same. Document three gives two accounts of the symptoms the people suffered from; one from a Christian and the other from a Muslim. This period was filled with chaos and terror. People didn't know what was caused by the middle of the paper. The Jews had their book of law and the Christians the Gospel, all in tears, asking God for forgiveness and help. In the Middle East, document ten gives the Muslim narrative. Muslims believed there was no need to create messianic movements that might associate the Black Death with an apocalypse. They believed that whatever God did was His intention and that there was no need to pray against anything. Muslims also knew that there was never a direct, casual relationship between the Black Death and active persecutions of minorities, or Jews, as in Europe. The Black Death brought a time of great suffering for everyone, regardless of religion. About a quarter of the world's population perished. People came up with the idea that brought them comfort at the time, but to this day there is no definitive explanation for how a virus could be so deadly..