Impact of the Black Death - Timewatch - BBC

The Timewatch investigation into the cause of the Black Death reaches Walsham le Willows in Suffolk where records show that this 14th century epidemic moved at a far greater speed than its 19th century counterpart, the bubonic plague. Watch more high quality videos on the BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide

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[kimair99]

 homework suck when u have to watch this

[Zzozze]

@vaironxxrd I've been always told so too. Just now, I'm beginning to have some doubt :(

For example: the mountainous area where I live, had been dramatically depopulated by the plague, but we don't have any rats!

[otherFlawliet]

@QuantumQuacks ok ok you're right I guess - I'm off now - GCSE homework to complete...

[sashamaz]

@otherFlawliet most of those people are concentrated in certain parts of the world but since you're so keen of reducing the world population you better set an example and let everyone else follow.

[otherFlawliet]

well actually there are too many people as it is - there are around 6,868,400,000 in the world. Think how many mouths that is to feed, how many homes are needed to accomodate these people, how much medicine and care is needed. Quite a lot I should think.

[sashamaz]

@otherFlawliet lol overpopulated, go to Russia/Africa and see how empty it is

[FinnishFuturist]

@Herimia not at all. If Europeans didn't have the diseases like the black death when they arrived the in the new world natives wouldn't have died in such great numbers as a result of disease. They would have resisted fiercely and halted colonization

[FinnishFuturist]

@No3Patriot i think WAAAY more than that...