Submitted by lolo5185 on April 25, 2008
The Black Death
The Black Death was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. It probably began in Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. There were an estimated twenty to thirty million deaths in Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population.
The fourteenth-century eruption of the Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe's population, permanently changing Europe's social structure. It was a serious blow to the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews and foreigners....
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