Born Then1360–1400
Life during the Return of the plague
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
After the Black Death, plague came back every decade or so. The outbreak of 1361 was called the children's plague because it killed so many born since 1348. These returns kept populations low for over a century.
Deaths: the outbreak of 1361–1363 alone killed perhaps 10 to 20 percent in many places, many of them children.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from scholarly estimates.
Around the same time
- Indian Ocean slave trade 700–1799
- Rise of Great Zimbabwe 1200–1450
- Hundred Years' War 1337–1453
- Black Death 1346–1353
- Return of the plague 1360–1400
- Conquests of Timur 1381–1405
- Timur's sack of Delhi 1398–1399