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…showed last 75 words of 602 total…it in some frightful manner; those who did not suffer from the disease themselves fled from it in terror as their loved ones died. The coming of the Black Death, when in just two years perhaps one third to one half of Europe's population was destroyed, makes a mark in Medieval and Renaissance European History. Because of the disease it dampened economic and demographic growth in most parts of Europe until the late seventeenth century.