The Black Death Helped Bring About the Modern World
The Black Death wiped out a third of Europe’s population in just a few years. But the peasants and laborers who survived wielded newfound power over their masters.
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The Black Death was the greatest calamity ever to have struck Europe, more lethal by far than the destructive wars of the twentieth century. In the space of a few years, the mysterious plague wiped out as much as a third of the European population. Historians coined the term “Black Death” long after the great […]