I have always found study of Plague to be far, far too Euro centric.
It was wiping out the Orient, too. And the chicken may have come before the egg.
Note Japan and South America and Polynesia were unaffected. Tack them on and you start to wander up the % of humans numbers towards extinction territory.
How sad for you.
It was wiping out the Orient, too. And the chicken may have come before the egg.
True, true.
I have never been completely “convinced” entirely by the classic “fleas and rats transmitted the Black Plague” because it its spread is so, so similar to the “walking pace” of the 1919 Spanish Flu - which evoked to create the exact same preventions as the 2020 Covid Plague.
Two different similarities between the Black Plague and the 1919 Flu though: Physical contact between the victims. Every Time. And, two different fatalities in both: A very rapid infection followed by a quick death, and a slower more traditional but classic “flu-like” pneumonia lung infection.
/sarcasm (The rooster came before either. )