The Black Death occurred from 1347-1353. It killed more than 1/3 of Europe's population alone, carried by fleas on rats.
It probably came from merchants that arrived from China.
The sea ports were hit first-- Sicily, near Italy. Like the Renaissance, from Italy it soon spread throughout Europe. Unlike the Renaissance, it brought with it poverty, confusion, and chaos.
Remember Monty Python's "Bring out yer dead!"? That is believed to be a joke that arose from cartdrivers who would go around collecting corpses during the Bubonic Plague (Black Death).
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The Bubonic Plague, which gave birth to the Black Death.
Every European country was hit. Black Death hit Europe in 1346 to 1353.
The Black Plague hit Europe and when it ended it is estimated that half the population perished.
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There may be some areas of northern and northeastern Europe, areas in what is now Russia, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania that did not see the plague. It hit the rest of Europe pretty badly.
The black plague first started in Constantinople in the 6th century. It didn't appear again until the 14th century in Europe. In the 1890s, small outbreaks hit India.
The Bubonic Plague (a.k.a The Black Plague) caused a dramatic decline in the population of Europe in the 1300s.
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black death is Plague pandemic. It killed 75 to 200 million people. Thus it changed it.
The Black Plague is a disease that spread throughout Europe and Asia. It was carried to Europe on Asian merchants' ships which had black rats which carried fleas which carried a type of bacteria. It killed about a third of the people in Europe.