A RESEARCH PAPER No one was exempt as it swept in off the shores and into the countryside laying its burden of death and pestilence. Europe had prospered readily for about 300 years prior to the beginning of the 1300s, but a series of natural disasters occurred. Poor harvests and famine were common and as the prosperous years came to a close, economies were in recession at the onset of the Black Death. Europe, on a …showed first 75 words of 1423 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1423 total…immense. A plague of the proportions that struck Europe would be compared to the effects of a nuclear war today. A thought that chills my bones to the core. Just imagine how a government of today's society would react to a disease with no cure that spread with the same rapidity and executed with the same effectiveness. The answer lies just one unknown virus away in our own evolution cycle. Will humanity survive? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**