In the 14th century, a microbe called Yersinia pestis caused an epidemic of plague known as the Black Death that killed off a third or more of the population of Europe. The long-term shortage of workers that followed helped bring about the end of feudalism.
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In Ancient DNA, Evidence of Plague Much Earlier Than Previously Known
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