The Black Death: Medieval Europe's Worst Nightmare and the Dawn of a New Age 💀

In the mid-14th century, a silent catastrophe swept out of the East, forever changing the course of Western Civilization. The Black Death (Yersinia pestis) didn't just kill up to 50 million people; it dismantled the feudal system, destroyed the Catholic Church's moral authority, and paradoxically, fueled the intellectual and economic shifts that gave rise to the Renaissance.

This documentary explores the grim journey of the plague, from the first documented biological warfare in Crimea to the mass graves of Europe, and examines the profound, irreversible changes that created the modern world.

Join us as we trace the horror, the survival, and the hard-won lessons that define the legacy of the "Great Mortality."

Timestamps

00:00 | Intro: The Shadow of Faith and the Unseen Enemy 🌍
00:11 | Part 1: The Arrival – From the Eastern Steppes to Caffa 🚢
03:00 | Part 2: The Unstoppable Spread Across Europe (1347-1349) 🦠
04:56 | Part 3: The Horror, Mass Graves, and the Collapse of Order ⚰️
06:52 | Part 4: The Aftermath – Labour Scarcity and the End of Feudalism 💰
08:34 | Part 5: The Legacy – Quarantine, Anatomy, and Scientific Thought 🔬
10:38 | Outro: The Eternal Shadow and the Birth of Modernity ✨

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