and the feeling of apocalypse that entailed remains to this day in the cultural artifacts from the period
the dichotomy that really knocks me on my ass is the black death, most parts of europe lost what like 20-40%
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the horror is maybe more abstract without having experienced it but it still remains, one image search for "plague art" away
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now compare to >90% wiped out by disease in the americas, an event the culture-feeling of which has been completely eradicated
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