Did Black Death trigger the rise of Europe?
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The Golden Age of Plague
There was a surprising increase in demand for consumer products despite the fact that there had been a decrease in the number of people available to consume those products. People adapt with remarkable resilience to the new circumstances and you start getting to see things like the lower classes for the first time using pepper, he says. The memory of a world we have lost remains in folk culture as it were but other legacies such as galleons and guns are persist.
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