en totally changed for generations to come. The plague started in China, which was a major trading center. Because it was a major trading center, and there were so many people there, the plague was easily spread on ships going to Europe and other parts of the world. About one-third of the population of Europe was wiped out, or twenty-five million people ("Bubonic. . . Europe"). There was not a person living who did not have a family member who died.
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