There were 7 different plagues, I believe that all created a rain of terror over the people.
It caused many people to die younger and more frequently since they didn't have immunity/vaccinations
In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman<span> emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader he who became the first Barbarian to rule in </span>Rome<span>. The order that the </span>Roman Empire<span> had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.</span>
The first proposal for peacefully unifying Europe against a common enemy emerged after the Fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453. George of Podebrady, a Hussite king of Bohemia, proposed in 1464 a union of European, Christian nations against the Turks.[1] However, his proposal was based on the nations' shared religious ideology, and there is no evidence that he viewed their common geographic location as particularly significant.