WORLD HISTORY

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

DECLINE OF FEUDALISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Some historians estimate that ____ million Europeans died of the plague ____ a third of the entire population.
A
24
B
34
C
44
D
30
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plague between 1347 and 1351.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Black Death” is one of the most notorious pandemics in historical memory, with many experts estimating that it killed roughly 50 million Europeans, the majority of people across the continent.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ole J Benedictow describes how he calculated that the Black Death killed 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Black Death was the second great natural disaster to strike Europe during the Late Middle Ages (the first one being the Great Famine of 1315–1317) and is estimated to have killed 30 percent to 60 percent of the European population, as well as about one-third of the population of the Middle East.

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