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From the Archives - Historical Impact of the Plague

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Can the Fleas on the Rats Be the Primary Cause of the Plage?

The plague was a truly global pandemic. It's estimated that anywhere between 40 and 60 % of population in the mediterranean region died from this disease, with estimates of about up to a hundred million global. Some scholars think that it may even have started in the thirteenth century. And associate its incubation and spread with the mongol military forces and the conquest,. The dramatic conquests that enlarged mongol, themongol imperium, to be the largest land based world empire across eurasia in the history of the world.

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