It is suggested (never really proven) that the Black Death appeared first in Europe during the Roman period (suggesting in the 500 AD period). But the full scale Black Death era is considered to be around 1347 to 1351.
Death count? It's never reliable, but most will write up the number of 50 million as a minimum, and suggest it might go up to 200 million.
Somewhere in the range of 50-percent of the European population ended up dying during this period.
So what really dissolved the Black Death threat? It generally goes to three central themes:
1. A fair number of folks abandoned the urbanized cities that existed, and retreated to the countryside. Returning? Not for several years.
2. Some suggestions go and label a fair number of people as poor hygiene 'players' and that when those folks were wiped out....the better hygiene 'players' survived on. I like this scenario but it always begs the question....just how bad was hygiene at the time?
3. The introduction of cats affected the plague outcome. This is a scenario which begs questions. The Romans are the ones who brought domesticated cats into the Germanic region. Maybe you needed massive numbers of cats....to battle the rat problem, which brought the Black Death to your doorstep.
All of these threats continually met up with better and improved hygiene and sanitation practices. I think the same will occur to some degree over the next month or two with the Coronavirus. If you notice the shutdown of urban 'magnets' for socializing....that will lessen a good bit of the current threat.
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