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Black Death In Medieval Europe
"What were the social, economic, political, and cultural effects of the black death on Europe."

According to the article, there is usually a twenty-three-day cycle for victim to die from the introduction of plague contagion among rats in a human community, and since the number of fugitives from the plague-striken areas multiplies the speed, the disease spread rapidly by a process called as "spread by leaps". Moreover, since the medieval society was in a dynamic phase of "modernization heralding the transformation from a medieval to early ", the early industrial market-economic and capitalistic developments were primarily based on busy shipping lines that bound the world together. Nonetheless, the rapid transportation by ship rendered in

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