elatively dormant in the succeeding centuries. We know that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it. Whatever the reason, it is known that the outbreak began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it spread in every direction, and the Asian nations suffered as cruelly as in any of the other countries that had received the plague. In China, for example, the population drop
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