Your Friend the Rat: Rats Started It
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This clip depicts the migration of rats to Europe and the role played by rats in the spread of the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death.
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  1. How did black rats first get to Europe?
  2. How deadly was the plague in Europe?
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  • 113.42.C.4.G
    Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills - Social Studies
    explain how the Crusades, the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the Great Schism contributed ...
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  • Martha Ann Harper
    11 months ago
    Great review clip
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