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The Black Death and Justinian’s Plague: History’s Worst Pestilences
Conventional wisdom has it that the medieval era’s Black Death was history’s worst plague. However, it might have been rivaled in lethality and impact by another horrific pestilence, Justinian’s Plague, which swept through the Old World in late Antiquity. Below are seventeen fascinating facts about those two calamities, history’s most lethal plagues. 17. History’s Most ...