The Black Death refers to ________

a. the famine that occurred from 1315 to 1317
b. a virulent plague that struck fourteenth-century Europe
c. a disease transmitted through African slaves
d. the collapse of the European economy in the fourteenth century
e. a heretical sect of Gnostic Christians


Answer: B

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