The plague devastates Cairo
1348 · Event
In the largest city west of China, the dead soon outrun the living's capacity to bury them — chroniclers count thousands of deaths a day at the peak. Egypt may lose a third of its people; the Mamluk empire, like Europe, spends a century recovering. The Black Death is a catastrophe of the whole Old World, not one continent.
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