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The Black Death
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11-19-2007 3:33 AM
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This text is very usefull for anyone with a year 8 history exam coming up!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/86eae7b5-0116-42b5-8ea1-b76a4cb52b72/9901847D-12E8-4E76-87E1-58E1360A0442/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=172428125" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=172428125" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=172428125">The <B>Black Death</B>, or The <B>Black Plague</B>, was one of the most deadly <A title="Pandemic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic">pandemics</A> in human history.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> It probably began in <A title="Central Asia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asia">Central Asia</A><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-1"><A title="" href="#_note-1">[2]</A></SUP> and spread to <A title="Europe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe">Europe</A> by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 to 30 million deaths in Europe.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-2"><A title="" href="#_note-2">[3]</A></SUP><SUP class="reference" id="_ref-3"><A title="" href="#_note-3">[4]</A></SUP> The Black Death is estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of <A title="Medieval demography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_demography">Europe's population</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=172428125">The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying <A title="Virulence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virulence">virulence</A> and mortalities until the 1700s.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-6"><A title="" href="#_note-6">[8]</A></SUP> During this period, more than 100 plague epidemics swept across Europe.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-7"><A title="" href="#_note-7">[9]</A></SUP> On its return in 1603, the plague killed 38,000 <A title="Londoners" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londoners">Londoners</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Death&oldid=172428125">The fourteenth-century eruption of the Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe's population, irrevocably changing Europe's social structure. It was a serious blow to the <A title="Roman Catholic Church" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church">Roman Catholic Church</A>, and resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, foreigners, beggars, and lepers.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9901847D-12E8-4E76-87E1-58E1360A0442/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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