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Originally Posted by thesnowman as for deaths in the middle ages i was reffering to england.....which lost over half of it's population, allowing peasants and the like to not only get paid for the first time but rise up in teh ranks and become lords and barons themselves.
my comparison however was teh sheer unstopable force of teh black death in the past...and teh simple truth that it is cureable now....it wasnt before.
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""In Medieval England, the Black Death was to kill 1.5 million people out of an estimated total of 4 million people between 1348 and 1350. No medical knowledge existed in Medieval England to cope with the disease. After 1350, it was to strike England another six times by the end of the century. Understandably, peasants were terrified at the news that the Black Death might be approaching their village or town""
Almost half but not quite..... another .5 Million people would have had to have died to make it half.... more than that to make it more than half..... If more than half the population of England had died during the plague it would have completely brought England to its knees and Modern England as we know it may not have existed.....