Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0439 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Black Death Across Afro-Eurasia
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The idea
Early in the fourteenth century the Medieval Warm Period gave way to the Little Ice Age, about zero point six degrees colder, with famine and migration. In the thirteen forties the Black Death crossed Afro-Eurasia; Mamluk cities deteriorated, and Europeans questioned clergy and nobility.
In practice
Flagellants flogging themselves to appease God.
Where people slip
Long-term effects: the Ming's Confucian restoration, Islam's expansion, feudalism's decline.
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