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…showed last 75 words of 799 total…classes, the hardest hit after the plague, in a worse position than they were before. The morality figures for the Black Death will never be known. Although marriage and birth rates increased after the plague, recurrent plagues never allowed population to recover to pre-plague levels. The social and economic repercussions of the epidemic were catastrophic. The plague is known world wide, and will be remembered as one of the worst epidemics in history. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**