which one of the following regions was stricken by animal plagues?
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Europe was stricken by animal plagues in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Revelation 18 reads: "Therefore her plagues will come in one day - death and grief and famine - and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her." Plague is also mentioned in the Book of Hosea in the Hebrew Bible.
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The aurochs (/ˈɔːrɒks/ or /ˈaʊrɒks/; pl. aurochs, or rarely aurochsen, aurochses), also known as urus or ure (Bos primigenius), is an extinct species of large wild cattle that inhabited Asia, Europe, and North Africa. It is the ancestor of domestic cattle.
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Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) is a virus that affects domestic and wild hoofed animals. It is transmitted by the bite of a small midge (culicoides) known as “no-see-ums,” gnats and biting flies smaller than a mosquito. They transmit the virus by biting an infected host and then a susceptible one.
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Cold steppe The world's largest steppe region, often referred to as "the Great Steppe", is found in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and neighbouring countries stretching from Ukraine in the west through Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to the Altai, Koppet Dag and Tian Shan ranges in China.
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Asia is the continent which has the most endangered species.
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It was caused by the spread of the bubonic plague and caused massive death tolls wherever it occurred. It is remembered today as one of the most important pandemics in all of human history and for its role in other major events and time periods, such as: the Silk Road, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, wiped out 30 to 50 percent of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351. But, this is just the most infamous of the little microbe's shenanigans.
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While there is evidence of one strain of Ebola virus being present in animal populations in some parts of Asia, there have been no reports of human illness outside of Africa. The most recent outbreak was the first in West Africa. There is no evidence that it is present in Australian bats or other animals in Australia.
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Philip Sclater (1858) and Alfred Wallace (1876) identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world used today: Palaearctic, Aethiopian (today Afrotropic), India (today Indomalayan), Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical. Marine regionalization began with Ortmann (1896).
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More than 200,000 saiga antelopes collapsed and died suddenly in 2015, wiping out most of the global population. The deaths were found to be caused by a bacterial infection. However, new data shows other factors were involved too, including unusually high humidity and temperatures.
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Koalas and wallabies, as well as bird, fish and frog species are among those needing the most help, said experts. Researchers had previously estimated that more than 1 billion animals may have perished in the fires, which scorched large swathes of temperate forest and grassland.
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The “danger area” in Scotland for ticks is throughout Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highlands and Islands, Argyll and Bute, the Western Isles and Moray. Smaller numbers of cases are reported in Orkney, Shetland and Caithness and Sutherland.
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It is estimated that there are between 50 and 100 cases in Ireland each year. The ticks that cause Lyme disease are commonly found in woodland and heathland areas. This is because these types of habitats have a high number of tick-carrying animals, such as deer, mice and sheep.
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As a disease carrier The plague in marmots is of the pneumonic form, spread by marmots coughing. The plague can jump from marmots to humans through the bite of the tarbagan flea (Ceratophyllus silantievi), or through consumption of meat. Marmot epizootics are known to co-occur with human epidemics in the same area.
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The plague had an important effect on the relationship between the lords who owned much of the land in Europe and the peasants who worked for the lords. As people died, it became harder and harder to find people to plow fields, harvest crops, and produce other goods and services. Peasants began to demand higher wages.