How the Black Death Changed the World


	How the Black Death Changed the World

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4-29-2008 5:43 AM

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Seven thousand people died per day in Cairo. Three-quarters of
Florence's residents were buried in makeshift graves in just one
macabre year. One third of China evaporated before the rest of the
world knew what was coming. 
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By the time the tornado-like destruction of the 14th-century bubonic <A href="http://www.livescience.com/viruses/">plague</A> finally dissipated, nearly half the people in each of the regions it touched had succumbed to a gruesome, painful death. 
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The <A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/080128-black-death.html">Black Death</A>
– as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was
halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in
the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon,
France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. 
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In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It
took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the
devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching
corpses pile up in the streets, were permanent. 
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