Disturbing Details You Might Not Know About The Black Death

The ever-present threat of death makes people do weird things, like making graphically explicit keepsakes or whipping themselves to appease God. And those aren't the only disturbing aspects of the Black Death.

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Terrifying symptoms | 0:00
The past is prologue | 0:59
Unclear origins | 1:46
Driven by climate change | 2:58
Spread by a ghost ship | 3:38
Quarantine laws | 4:23
Doctors tried everything | 5:21
The plague doctor costume | 6:09
Plague pits | 7:10
Overall population health | 8:19
Changing genetics | 9:10
One village risked it all | 9:58
Danse Macabre and Memento Mori | 11:06
Slaughtered Jews | 12:04
Traveling flagellants | 13:00
Little Ice Age | 14:08
The searchers | 15:13
Disappearing Viking colonies | 16:19
Explicit keepsakes | 17:19

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