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    The document discusses the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century, which originated in Asia and spread through trade routes, killing up to 65% of the population in Europe and Asia. It caused societal collapse as farmers died and food production declined. Political regimes also fell during this period. Countries worked to rebuild stability through succession laws and military expansion after the pandemic subsided.

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    The document discusses the Black Death pandemic of the 14th century, which originated in Asia and spread through trade routes, killing up to 65% of the population in Europe and Asia. It caused societal collapse as farmers died and food production declined. Political regimes also fell during this period. Countries worked to rebuild stability through succession laws and military expansion after the pandemic subsided.

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    The Black Death

    The black death is a significant historical development experienced in the 14th century.

    The pandemic came from Asia following a combination of different infections. These included

    the bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic epidemic stress. The epidemic left a train of many deaths

    and infections of up to 65% of the population. The spread of the disease is attributed to elements

    such as climate change where the ice age feared to have debilitated the population and rendered

    them susceptible. The drying of central Asia is another climate-related issue that facilitates the

    spread of the disease. The bubonic affected the regions for many years and forced rodents to

    come out of their dwellings and affected pastoralists as they navigated through regions. The

    Mongols trading network is another factor that triggered the dissemination of the disease in the

    Afro-Eurasia. The rise and fall of the Mongols had significant impacts on the Black death and

    influenced different impacts of the pandemic to the population.

    The black death came with a lot of devastation in the Afro-Asia population. The Chinese

    race reduced from 115m to 75m, which is the consequence of the Mongol invasion of the 13 th

    century and the illness and condition of the 14th. In the 14th century, the population in Europe

    reduced by almost fifty per cent. In the compactly settled Islamic territory came a populace

    which had risen to six million people being cut into half. Many farmers fell ill and died as a

    result of the plague and resulted in the collapse of food generation. Starvation ensued and

    murdered the survivors as the people severely aggrieved were from the coastal cities, specially
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    the harbors. Some cities counted losses of up to two-thirds of the populace. The migrants fled

    from their residents and sought safety and food from the rural area. The scarcity of food resulted

    in increased prices of commodities, and people stopped going to work due to the high unrests.

    The political leaders influenced their popularity as they made efforts to repress the unrest in the

    populace. Regimes collapsed in every corner and the Mongol Empire, that had held significant

    Eurasia together collapsed.

    The Black Death hit the expanding Afro-Eurasia population that was growing and made

    them vulnerable due to the low immune systems. The region was also highly affected because it

    was the hub of the main realms were carefully linked following the trading systems. Rodents

    ferried the plague that brought the illness. The fleas dispersed the bacilli which carried the

    disease from rodent to rodent and people. The disease was a severe threat as its roots were

    unclear at the time. The affected population perished fast and, in some cases, people died

    overnight in severe pains. Europeans sages credited the devastating of their people to an unusual

    arrangement of the Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. They claimed that God was furious with the human

    race. The people associated the disease to the scriptural flood, and they thought that this was a

    sign of the end of humankind. The Afro-Eurasia population across the region had no clarification

    for the dying, and they acted in reprehensible ways and outrageous in a normal situation.

    During the later periods of the fourteenth century, Afro-Eurasia begun to rebuild its

    political stability and trading routes as the reconstruction of the army and civil governance

    needed political legality. The administrators wanted to rebuild the assurance in themselves and

    their political organizations before fostering the principles and rituals that confined the

    legitimacy and amplified their controls over the topics. The dynasties were determined to start

    their powers in three distinct ways. The first was where the presiding households believed their
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    powers came from the divine calling. Secondly, the leaders eliminated wrangles among the

    potential heirs as they established rules on inheritance to the throne. Most of the European states

    made efforts to standardize the succession bypassing the titles to the elder male heirs. The third

    approach was that the ruling families increased their powers through conquest and alliance and

    by ordering the armies to extend their domains and by wedding their royal offspring to the rulers

    of the other states and the individuals of the other elite families. After the establishment of

    legitimacy, the royal family consolidated the power. They enacted coercive laws and punishment

    as well as sending emissaries to govern some territories.

    The review of the Black Death explores how it is a significant element in the history of

    the Mongols. The disease saw the rise and fall of the Mongols. It contributed to the weakening of

    the population and the collapse of the reign. Many people perished; farms dry out because there

    was no labor to attend to the agricultural products. The disease affected everyone across the

    social classes. While climate change issues are attributed to the spread of the disease, the Mongol

    trade routes appear as the significant factor that disseminated the disease across the population.

    Empires and dynasties collapsed, and it took them new efforts to rebuild and re-establish their

    regimes.

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