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Black Death Persuasive Essay

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Hi Emily,
Thank you for the wonderful update on Black Death, So, the Black Death had the unintended consequences of leaving Europe with a much healthier and more disease-resistant population and a much stronger economic situation, which might go part of the way to explaining why they were able to colonize the globe ahead of some other group. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with today's germs and bacteria! Descendants of those exposed to things that can kill them are now and progressively stronger, even in the face of major threats to health, such as repeated plague outbreaks, several generations of people who lived after the Black Death were healthier in general than people who lived before the epidemic, why? "By targeting frail

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