The Truth About The First Thanksgiving Summary

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Regarding to the book Lies My Teacher Told me, “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving.” This chapter focus on plaques and the first Thanksgiving. Loewe James focus on the caused of the plaque more than the first Thanksgiving. Because of the plaque was one of the reason that lead to Thanksgiving. I find several interesting things in this chapter. One thing, was that the plaque occurred around the years 1348 through 1350, and it killed 30 percent of the population of Europe as a punishment from God for human sins. Europe and Asia were the reason that caused the disease such as smallpox, which is spread all over the place during the 1942. I also, find that Europe have try to settle in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan, but Europe were not

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