Illnesses like tuberculosis, sweating sickness, smallpox, dysentery, typhoid, influenza, mumps and gastrointestinal infections could and did kill. The Great Famine of the early 14th century was particularly bad: climate change led to much colder than average temperatures in Europe from c1300 – the 'Little Ice Age
A, The trial of Peter Zenger is widely credited with being the first example of American <u>freedom of press</u>, even though the American nation did not yet exist.
