... and were hit very hard by the plague. Some historians claim that the tax surveys of Florence, Pistoia, Prato and Sa Gimignano suggest that the population had more than halved and had declined by almost 62 to 75 percent (Aberth, 2010). However, it is also argued that the recurring epidemics killed ... septicaemia. Therefore it can be said that the impact of the Black Death on Europe and Scotland resulted in mass mortality and huge destruction of the population across the world for several years. Consequently, in 1315-1322 the disease spread to the livestock and was in its own an epidemic...

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