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Ep 5 Plague Part 1: The GMOAT

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Logistics of a Sharp Population Decline

Plague also gave us the word quarantine, which comes from the Italian phrase for 40 days. Europe didn't recover to its pre-plague population levels for another 150 years. Some researchers suggest that the population drop led to a massive reforestation in Europe with so few people to work the land.

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