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To: Mike Darancette

The plague may haver gotten to Europe as the result of Mongol catapaults used in an attack against a Genoese trading city in the Crimea. [The Mongols had a secret alliance going back to the 1220s with the Venetians].


23 posted on 07/23/2006 1:16:33 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr
The plague may haver gotten to Europe as the result of Mongol catapaults used in an attack against a Genoese trading city in the Crimea.

For sure the plague originated in Asia.

24 posted on 07/23/2006 2:42:37 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (999-TNS)
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