Black death (jan 1, 1348 – jan 1, 1349)

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- There were so many deaths that it had consequences on medieval society as a whole, with a shortage of farmers resulting in demands for an end to serfdom, and the abandonment of villages and towns.

- global temperatures dropped slightly, decreasing agricultural production and causing food shortages, hunger, malnutrition, and weakened immune systems

- due to bad or non-existent record-keeping, it has been hard for historians to determine the true number of people that died to the black death. In Europe alone, it is likely that from 134701352, the plague killed at leatst twenty million people, or one-third of Europe's population

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