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True or false was the Justinian plague had little effect on the Roman empire society due to the size of the empire

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It’s false



The plague weakened the Byzantine Empire at a critical point, when Justinian's armies had nearly retaken all of Italy and the western Mediterranean coast; the evolving conquest would have reunited the core of the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern Roman Empire

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