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Long And Short-Term Impacts Of The Black Death In Europe
THE BLACK DEATH had infected everyone in Europe, killing 1/3 of the entire European population, starting the year 1348. The disease was brought to Europe on ships/boats by fleas. The fleas then infected the rats, which infected everyone else. Long and short-term impacts were caused by the Black Death, and some couldn’t be resolved for centuries.

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