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The Plague

The rats did it! Rats, almost single handedly, killed off about a third of the

European population throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. Its effects on western

civilization still lasts today, but for the people who lived during the plagues wish indeed

that they did not. Society was depressed, the economy was struggling, food was scarce,

and all of Europe was in battle. Who would want to live in these dramatic conditions?

No one, and not for centuries to come.

The Plague, also known as the Black Death, or the Bubonic Plague, which struck in 1346, and again in 1361-62, ravaged all of Europe to the extent of bringing gruesome death to millions people of the Middle Ages. It was a combination of bubonic, septicemia, and pneumonic plague strains that started in the east and worked it's way west, but never left its native home. One of the things that made the plague one of the worst was that there were outbreaks almost every ten years but......

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