THE BLACK DEATH: HOW THE PLAGUE ENDED THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Episode 6 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Black Death — the pandemic that killed between thirty and sixty percent of Europe's entire population in five years and didn't just kill people. It ended a civilization and started another one.
This episode covers the bacterium Yersinia pestis and its path from Central Asia to the ports of Sicily, the medieval world's failure to understand or stop it, the pogroms against Jewish communities, the collapse of the feudal labor system, and the Church's authority that never fully recovered.
The Black Death…
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