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The Black Death | 2. origins & spread

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The Long Term History of Plague

The plague didn't just disappear after the 13 forties. We need to understand that the outbreak we think of the black death, was just one of many outbreaks over the following centuries. Between about the 13 fifties and the later seventeenth century, there was only one year where there was not an plague outbreak somewhere in europe. The successful pandemic pathagin will be the one that can most effectively exploit our mechanisms of travel. What has sars cove done? It's exploited aviation. In the fourteenth century, it exploited the fact that these different societies were already getting into these major, major investments in grain trade. That's what those carmonalities are in the way that

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