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The Four Black Deaths
The American Historical Review ^ | December 2020 | Monica H. Green

Posted on 04/12/2021 12:19:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

The Black Death, often called the largest pandemic in human history, is conventionally defined as the massive plague outbreak of 1346 to 1353 C.E. that struck the Black Sea and Mediterranean, extended into the Middle East, North Africa, and western Europe, and killed as much as half the total population of those regions. Yet genetic approaches to plague’s history have established that Yersinia pestis, the causative organism of plague, suddenly diverged in Central Asia at some point before the Black Death, splitting into four new branches—a divergence geneticists have called the “Big Bang.” Drawing on a “biological archive” of genetic evidence, I trace the bacterial descendants of the Big Bang proliferation, comparing that data to historical human activities in and around the area of plague’s emergence. The Mongols, whose empire emerged in 1206, unwittingly moved plague through Central Eurasia in the thirteenth, not the fourteenth, century. Grain shipments that the Mongols brought with them to several sieges, including the siege of Baghdad, were the most likely mechanism of transmission. The fourteenth century plague outbreaks represent local spillover events out of the new plague reservoirs seeded by the military campaigns of the thirteenth century.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 13thcentury; 14thcentury; ancientautopsies; blackdeath; blackplague; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; fourteenthcentury; godsgravesglyphs; mongols; monicahgreen; pandemic; rachelgeller; thirteenthcentury; yersiniapestis
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To: oldbrowser
So the Chinese have a history of spreading pandemics.

Not many that did not come out of China.

Weird.

21 posted on 04/12/2021 1:56:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: Midwesterner53

C.E. ..... Pro-tip: call it “Christian Era”; you’ll get stink eye but it’s quite satisfying. [B.C.E. = Before Christian Era].


22 posted on 04/12/2021 2:05:03 PM PDT by TrueFact (God bless America. )
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To: SunkenCiv

“The Mongols, whose empire emerged in 1206, unwittingly moved plague through Central Eurasia in the thirteenth, not the fourteenth, century.”

But Columbus and the Europeans in America brought disease on purpose. At least that’s what we’re brainwashed into believing.


23 posted on 04/12/2021 2:08:24 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d like to read it, but it’s behind a paywall.


24 posted on 04/12/2021 2:20:30 PM PDT by Notthemomma ( )
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To: Robert A Cook PE

The Spanish flu was often spread by returning soldiers.

Currently something is being spread around by busloads of illegal kids being transported everywhere.


25 posted on 04/12/2021 2:28:36 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: Midwesterner53
C.E. another way to ignore Christ.

CE = Communist Era. Sadly, some conservatives have started using it.

26 posted on 04/12/2021 2:42:37 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Macoozie; Liz; MHGinTN; Kaslin; Lazamataz
I always thought it was by bad Blow and unclean Hookers?

Death by Bad Blow and Unclean Hookers? No, no. But you're probably just confused by the recent Hunter Biden Black Derth (of news).

27 posted on 04/12/2021 5:09:52 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I do that too. I once told someone that CE means Christian Era.

No. It’s worse than even that “politically corrupt” deception-by-omission. “CE” was chosen for “Common Era”.


28 posted on 04/12/2021 5:11:41 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

‘Blsck derth’ ... I’m keepin’ that one! LOL


29 posted on 04/12/2021 5:17:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

I wonder, is Don Lemon the Derth Vader of CNN? All I know is Billy Gates is from Hell. It syas so int he bible ... “and the Gates of Hell shall not revail’


30 posted on 04/12/2021 5:32:44 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Eric Garner


31 posted on 04/12/2021 5:37:58 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: SunkenCiv

baltimore...

chicago...

detroit...

washington dc...


32 posted on 04/12/2021 5:50:16 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; All

Except the ones that come out of Africa like HIV/AIDS and Ebola.


33 posted on 04/13/2021 3:47:26 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Macoozie; All

In our southwest it is spread by praire dogs and fleas.


34 posted on 04/13/2021 3:50:28 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
AIDS is an STD so I am not sure it should be considered a pandemic. And Ebola burns its self out way to fast to become a pandemic. Although if it mutates that could change.
35 posted on 04/13/2021 10:56:57 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; All

My concern was limiting thinking to the idea that bad things are only likely to come from China. Think of the millions of American Indians killed by Spanish and the illnesses of other Europeans. And in return, probably syphilis was sent to Europe from America in exchange. To me and I suspect a number of others, a pandemic is any illness which is deadly and is spreading widely, and often through unidentified means. For a number of years the specific cause of AIDS was unknown, or it was not possible to determine if one was infected/contagious. Thus it was spread to many innocent parties like wives or occasionally husbands, hemophiliacs, and surgery patients.


36 posted on 04/13/2021 12:23:11 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Think of the millions of American Indians killed by Spanish and the illnesses of other Europeans.

Many of those illnesses originally came out of China. Well, Central Asia.

To me and I suspect a number of others, a pandemic is any illness which is deadly and is spreading widely, and often through unidentified means.

Fair enough.

. For a number of years the specific cause of AIDS was unknown, or it was not possible to determine if one was infected/contagious.

Um-mm... yeah... going to have to disagree with you there. AIDS was known to be an STD. There was noting mysterious about it. It was even known as GRID, gay-related immunodeficiency.

37 posted on 04/13/2021 6:33:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Moi aussi.


38 posted on 04/14/2021 11:29:05 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; blam; All

AIDS was identified quite early as an STD. However, it took a while longer for people to realize that cases experienced by hemophiliacs, or surgery recipients were HIV and they certainly were NOT STD. I remember the argument over whether gay men should be allowed to provide blood. Also by that time it was spread among addicts and others who sold their blood to buy a fix. I knew a young man who was operating a gay escort service. In 1985, the Washington Post ran a 3 day series on HIV/AIDS. The next time I saw that guy, he said 1/2 his clientele had disappeared. He said these were suburban husbands who were sneaking out on their wives. I imagine there were a few wives who became sick without thinking they had been hit with an STD and some puzzled doctors.


39 posted on 04/19/2021 12:36:25 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

‘A few wives’

How is AIDS transmitted to a female if the Bi cretin doesn’t hit the brown eye and burst blood vessels?


40 posted on 04/19/2021 12:59:59 AM PDT by Sgt_Rutter
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