What effects did the eruption of Mt Vesuvius have on the town Pompeii?

Before Mount Vesuvius erupted on Pompeii, Italy, it erupted in an even more powerful explosion that affected the area occupied by present day Naples. It left the region a desert wasteland for centuries. it covered everything in ash and left plants and animals to die but not only plants and animals but people practically everyone died in this eruption

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Mount Vesuvius left Pompeii covered in ash, but the people who survived had to find somewhere else to live because there village was buried in ash, along with the people who hadn't left the village in time.