1. It never lead to a single large conflict. Rather many smaller ones.
2. During the Cold War, the USA and USSR both funded army’s of smaller countries to fight for them. For instance the Korean and Veitnam Wars.
3. The Cold War came to a close when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
Maps include smaller lands that globes do not have listed. Maps are flat and have landmarks to refer to in your travels to a place. Maps have more specifics while a globe just lists ocean currents, names, and countries and islands.
The Feudal system that had previously dominated Europe begins to collapse.
Considered divine punishment, the Black Death (bubonic plague) was one of the largest epidemics that plagued mankind.
In early 1330 the first outbreak of the bubonic plague happened in China. Plague mainly affects rodents, but their fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once infected, the infection to other people occurs extremely quickly. The plague causes fever and a painful swelling of the lymphatic glands called bulbs, hence its name. The disease can also cause blemishes on the skin that first have a reddish color and then turn black.
