The plague came from the fleas on the rats and the rats traveled through ships and merchants ship coming from other countries. Once the rats with the fleas reached a city heavily populated, mass amounts of people died because the disease was contagious. To add to that the cities were extremely dirty and had dead people everywhere.
Contrary to the previous answer to this question, Roman culture very much lived on.As the Western Roman Empire neared its end the Barbarians became "Romanized" in a sense much more than the Romans became "barbarized".
<span>If the Supreme Court had decided
differently in Gibbons V. Ogden or Mcculloch V. Maryland, Maryland may be able
to established bank. The McCulloch v. Maryland is one of the most significant cases
of the Supreme Court in relation to the federal power. The Supreme Court believed
that the Congress has inferred authorities get from Article I, Section 8 or the
“Necessary and Proper” clause. It provided the Congress the authority to
establish a national bank.</span>