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Black Plauge

Date Submitted: 06/04/2004 10:20:19
Category: / History
Length: 4 pages (976 words)
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The Black Plague is a type of bubonic plague that traveled throughout Europe, and the Mediterranean Sea killing millions. The Black Plague (or Black Death) is a bacterial infection that causes swelling on numerous parts of the body. Also it causes odd sores in which human flesh is eaten away. If you are infected with this, you have 5 days to be treated before you die. This is carried mainly through a type of rat flea (…

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…also had good effects as well as bad. After the disease was gone the tragic death of so many gave immediate wealth to those still living. The workers who still lived made on average, five times as much as they were making. Since the plague killed people and not belongings the drop in population was accompanied by a rise in per capita wealth. It is also documented that there were larger spending after the plague

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