If you ask historian Michael McCormick to name the worst year in human history, his answer isn’t what you might expect. It’s not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe, nor 1918, when the flu pandemic killed tens of millions. Instead, he points to 536 AD, a year marked by an unprecedented…

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