[Fzob]

I believe catapulting the dead at some battle in Asia (?) is what is thought to have brought the plague to Europe. The losers carried the plague back to Italy after it was defeated.

During the plague years I don't believe there was much war going on in Europe. They were too busy burying the 25 million that died. Nearly one third of the population at the time.

[Cronos]

The plague was carried by rats who came along with the Mongols. Europe and Asia are not really two separate ontinents as is Africa, they're too intertwined. When the Chinese HAn dynasty repulsed the Mongols, the Mongols pushed the Huns who in turn pushed the Slavs into the Caucasus and the Slavs kicked the Germans out of the Caucasus into Germany, pushign the Celts and the Romans.

fourth-century BC Indian writer and strategist Kautilya

They also had a guy who created Macchiavelli's strategies 1700 years before him -- Chanakya.