The+consequences+of+the+black+plague

**__ The Black Plague __** == The great plague known as the “Black death”. Till today, Black Death is to think of as one of the most deadly epidemics known to the human kind. It is believed that Black Death was an aggravated burst of “Th e oriental plague” which was known to have emerged in North Africa and Asia in the earliest history records.==

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==The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 to 60 percent of Europe's population, reducing the worlds population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as having created a series of religious, social and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned many times, killing more people, until it left Europe in the 19th century.== ==The Europeans in the 14th century did not know what causes the plague or how it spreads which made **black death** even more damage and deaths it also caused far-reaching economic, social and religious changes .==

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==There have been three major outbreaks of plague. The Plague of Justinian in the 6th and 7th centuries is the first known attack on record, and marks the first firmly recorded pattern of Bubonic plague. From historical descriptions, as much as 40 percent of the population of Constantinople died from the plague. Modern estimates suggest half of Europe's population was wiped out before the plague disappeared in the 700s. After 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe.==