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

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The Black Death and the War in Europe

The final and deadly a spreader of the plague once it arrived in Europe was war. The way that war began to change in the 14th century See by the time the black death struck in the 1340s the Scots were killing the English, the French were killing the Flemings and the Italians in Spanish were killing themselves all on huge battlefields throughout the European countryside. They also came up with the incredible military idea of called chevoche which um was kill and Pillage and rape and burn all the people because what they forgot away to weaken the countries Was you do is what I do instead you got pillage everybody It's just fucking everybody But it made for a holy unpleasant experience

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