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The Black Death | 2. origins & spread

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The Black Death and the Justinianic Plague

It's really difficult to tell what impact the black death actually had ona in this early period with the lateneolithic and bronze age played. Almost all, or maybe all, of those laten lithic and bronze age or recoveries have been individuals. But there was a more significant outbreak of usinia pastis, much before the wave of black death in the 13 forties. This was called the justinianic plague, and it tore through societies around the mediterranean and the near east in waves beginning in the sixth century. The strains that are alive to day, that are most closely related to both of those pandemics are in a single area, and that is the tens

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