Black Death
Half-Hour History: Secrets of the Medieval World
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The Death of the Black Death
60 to 70% of the people who died in the Black Death were 15 years old and under. The population can't recover if the people who are going to make babies aren't there. So after the Black Death, you have an old and a young population; marriage and birth rates plummet.
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