The fact that we treat the Black Death/Bubonic Plague like its some sort of european thing is actually kinda wild?
plague facts™
Did you know Egypt's population (approx 6 mil at the beginning of the 1400's) was halved by the plague/resulting famine from all the farmers being dead
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@Satsuma@wandering.shop there were areas in China that suffered from outbreaks for seventy years before it got to Europe!
Probably 90% of Hebei died!!
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@Satsuma@wandering.shop & the plague's aftermath was a major factor in the rise of the Ottoman & Safavid empires because of the disruptions it caused to the preëxisting...everything really
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@Satsuma@wandering.shop part of the reason why this irritates me so much is because i feel like the same 'it originated in Asia [talks only about what happened in Europe/the US]' thing is going on right now, nearly 700 years later with covid
