HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Death resulted in the deaths of an estimated 75-200 million people-approximately 30% of Europe’s population. It spread from central Asia on rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, and traveled towards Europe as people fled from one area to another.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Black Death was the largest demographic shock in European history, killing approximately 40% of the region’s population between 1347 and 1352. Some regions and cities were spared, but others were severely hit: England, France, Italy and Spain lost between 50% and 60% of their populations in two years.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Y. pestis10, was the initial wave of a nearly 500-year-long pandemic termed the second plague pandemic and is one of the largest infectious disease catastrophes in human history1, 11, 12.