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Notes and sources The Great War and mortality impacts: Dmitri Jdanov, Evgeny Andreev, Domantas Jasilionis and Vladimir M Shkolnikov of the Max Planck Institute in 2005. Between 1913 and 1918, British men aged 23 showed a 15-16 fold increase in the probability of premature death. https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/16/13-16.pdf During World War One, in 1916, the Newfoundland Regiment...

The spread of the Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was spread by disease-bearing fleas carried in turn by infected rats. Recent research has disputed this. https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death The Back Death and HIV http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/10/4/l_104_05.html Tsunami: some countries often have plans to help deal with ‘tida...

Notes and sources An apocalypse is a “very serious event resulting in great destruction and change” (according to the Cambridge Dictionary ) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/apocalypse A super volcano event possibly resulted in a human population decline of up to 90%, although a group of African early-modern humans nearly 9000kms away managed to thrive in this period, putting th...