While China fortified its borders and reinstated political systems that had been dismantled by the Mongols, it also had to contend with a sharp drop in population due to warfare and the lingering effects of ______________that ravaged the country in the 1340s.
a. syphilis
b. bubonic plague
c. yellow fever
d. leprosy
b. bubonic plague
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