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Episode 457: The Black Death Part II - Passport to Hell

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The History of Florence and the Black Plague

Florence was hit by the same famine that had hit the rest of Italy and they had no money to import more grain because King Edward III in England had borrowed over a million Florence to fund the hundred years war with France. The wool is then full of fleas which then jump to the wool workers which thenjump to everybody else Right. It's like back in the day they They killed the other one so things don't that bad Yeah, I mean and really what the reason why things were so bad and some play or worse in some places and not as bad elsewhere.

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