Assertion: plague | /r/CapableOf | sweep across europe
Facets:
value: in the mid-14th century
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The plague which swept across China, Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century is estimated to have killed between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population.
text: As the plague swept across Europe in the mid-14th century, annihilating more than half the population, Jews were taken as scapegoats, in part because better hygiene among Jewish communities and isolation in the ghettos meant that Jews were less affected.