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The Black Death was bad. Really bad. It killed over a third of the population of Western Europe. But things could have been worse for Europe (Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is a perfect example of this). But what if the pandemic hit England especially hard?

Here's what I was thinking -

1348 - Desperate to stop the plague spreading, Edward III enacts an isolationist policy for the entirety of the English Isles. Trading is shut down, boats are burned, etc.

Sometime in-between this - A combination of the plague and poorer living conditions (lack of trading leads to dwindling food/material supply) decimates Britain. The population falls below four million.

1349/1350 - After no deaths have been reported for a certain amount of time, the isolationist policy is raised. There is roughly two/one-and-a-half million people left alive...

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With England left in ruins, would other countries try to invade or occupy the land left behind? Would the mere notion of a future British Empire collapse? How would the rest of the world be without what we know as England?
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