Year 1347: The black death
By the end of the 13th century, the Eurocentric regions had found numerous ways to link with the most prominent financial centers of the world in Asia.
In the middle of the century, that turned out to be a curse since the height of the Bubonic Plague in Europe started when Asian ships arrived at the Sicilian port of Messina.
The nature of the European poly-centric trading system motivated the fast-paced development to that point. After the infection, the Bubonic Plague was believed to be the worst pandemic ever to strike Europe up until that point.
60% of the European population perished. Furthermore, up to 50 million people were wiped from the wider Eurasian region. The way of life was unsettled for decades to come, while the Black Death never actually ended, making it one of the worst years in history.
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While 6 million Jews were killed in Hitler’s concentration camps, overall 11 million people were killed in them. My Italian father-in-law who headed the resistance in his hometown in Northern Italy managed to survive.