English Bill of Rights: US Bill of Rights: That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

–English Bill of Rights,
1689

US Bill of Rights:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

–US Bill of Rights,
1789

Compare the excerpts from the English Bill of Rights and the US Bill of Rights.

What protections are established by both excerpts? Choose two correct answers.

1) protection from seizure of property
2) protection from unlawful arrest
3) protection from cruel punishment
4) protection from excessive fines
5) protection from required punishment

Once the plague became airborne, how could it then be spread?

Based on a comparison of the myths “the maori: genealogies and origins in new zealand” and “the raven and the first men: the beginnings of the haida,” if the maori and the haida people decided to create a myth together, what would most likely be the value expressed?

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.