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Question: How did Europeans respond to the Black Death!?
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they buried bodies in huge pits, and burned them

some fled the cities
some fled to churches
some thought it was bad air, and wore sweet smelling herbs about their person

Lots of them thought it was the end of the world - that all humanity would die!.




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Ultimate impact was a huge fraction of Europe dead!. If you were left alive, you were essentially rich - because all of the possessions of the dead were available for the taking!.

Some believe that all those excess clothes aided the development of cheap printed material because the rags were made into rag paper!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They killed off as many cats as they could!. Which caused the rat population to flourish, which spread the disease, because rats were carriers of the disease!. It killed approximately 30-40% of the population of Europe, though the exact number is difficult to ascertain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com