A Brief Moment of History: Humanity’s Worst Year Ever?
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Ask anyone on the street when they think the worst year in human history was, and I’m sure there’d be quite a variety of answers offered. Years during the World Wars; when the Black Death swept Europe; or even more recent events like during the Covid pandemic. War and disease are probably the most significant influencing factors. But one historian (Michael McCormick, to be precise), has one you almost certainly would never have offered: 536 AD. So why was this year so terrible for humanity, and.