Very abbreviated answer: The Black Death was another name for the plague, this claws caused by rats and lead to death of a large sum of the population.
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Myceneans controlled much of the Aegean world, after collapse of Cretan civilization, that coincides with this period. Myceneans created a strong kingdom, ruled by the rulers from Pelopidas dynasty. The strongest among them were Atreus and his son Agamemnon.
Explanation:
Mycenean civilization is the first great civilization created on the soil of Greece.
Although they created their kingdom on Peloponnese, through time they started spreading there influence across surrounding areas.
Therefore in this period we can say that they were dominating the Aegean world.
The Great Leap Forward was a colossal failure on the part of the Chinese Communist Regime.
Explanation:
Mao Zedong's scheme of the Great Leap forward relied on the labor on common land and ablution of private property in China.
The workers were to make the country into an industrial powerhouse to bring general prosperity in the nation.
However, the policies of indiscriminate industrial work without any centralized industry in place meant that the produce was of third rate, the people were often overworked and the famine that came due to less focus on agrarian setup was devastating.
More than 10 million people lost their life in the famine that was a result of the Great Leap Forward.
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Between 1980 and 2010, global consumption of dry natural gas rose from 53 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to 113 Tcf. Although consumption in North America saw the slowest regional growth in percentage terms (29%) from 1980 to 2010, the region accounted for more than 25% of the world's natural gas consumption during all years in the period. The Middle East had the highest growth rate, increasing more than ten-fold from 1.3 Tcf in 1980 to 13.2 Tcf in 2010.
