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What does Black Death mean?

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  1. (medicine) A pandemic outbreak (often attributed to bubonic plague) throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia.
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Most of our understanding of the Black Death has come from documentary sources.
The arrival of the Black Death brought social and economic chaos, from which not even the Minster was immune.
The Irish famine, from 1845 to 1848, was a unique event in modern European demography and its effects comparable to those of the Black Death.
In Doomsday Book the twenty-first century is stricken by yet another pandemic, almost as deadly as the Black Death was in the fourteenth.
Attempts to alleviate the sanitation problem were not helped by the Black Death itself.
An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode.

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