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Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire
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| May 10, 2013
| Charles Choi
Posted on 05/12/2013 6:14:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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New evidence suggests the Black Death bacterium caused the Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries. The pandemic, named after the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (shown here), killed more than 100 million people.
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05/12/2013 6:14:17 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: NYer; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ..
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posted on
05/12/2013 6:15:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Travis McGee
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posted on
05/12/2013 6:18:47 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: SunkenCiv
The answer to the problem of disease? Rife Machines.
Don’t know what that is? Google it!
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posted on
05/12/2013 6:20:37 PM PDT
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
To: SunkenCiv
The US already has its plague.
...They're called liberals.
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05/12/2013 6:30:27 PM PDT
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mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: mountn man
The US already has its plague. ...They're called liberals. And the civilized world has a plague - it is called Islam.
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05/12/2013 6:33:05 PM PDT
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FatherofFive
(Islam is evil and must be eradicate)
To: SunkenCiv
I never liked that Justinian guy. He had shifty eyes.
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05/12/2013 6:36:44 PM PDT
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REDWOOD99
("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
To: SunkenCiv
Informative read. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/12/2013 6:38:08 PM PDT
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Ciexyz
To: SunkenCiv
And like AIDS , was is spread through blood as a result of using the sex organs unnaturally?
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05/12/2013 6:38:33 PM PDT
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NoLibZone
(None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
To: SunkenCiv
So, the plague helped bring down the Roman Empire. I guess that means that we don’t stand a chance against the Obamanus Pelosium bacterium.
To: SunkenCiv
There was an earlier plague in Roman history in the 160s—Lucius Verus, co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius, campaigned against the Parthians (161-165) and his soldiers picked up the plague in Mesopotamia, bringing it back with them.
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05/12/2013 6:46:30 PM PDT
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onyx
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To: SunkenCiv
Genghis Khan brought it from the East over to Turkey and from there it went to Europe.
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05/12/2013 6:47:03 PM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
To: NoLibZone
No. It’s spread by the bite of an infected rat flea.
Only was I can see that sex would be involved is if you were attempting an unnatural act on a rat.
To: NoLibZone
The Black Plague was (and is) spread through insect bites and through infected exhaled vapor.
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05/12/2013 6:49:42 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: SunkenCiv
Justinianic Plague of the sixth to eighth centuries. This pandemic... Some historians have suggested it contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. Ummmm, the Roman Empire ended in 479 and was well on it's way out, long before Justinian
That's like saying the 1918 Spanish flu help win the American Revolution
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05/12/2013 6:51:24 PM PDT
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qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: Verginius Rufus
The Antonine Plague is believed to have been smallpox and/or measles.
To: REDWOOD99
He married a hooker, carried out the Nika riots massacre, managed to rejoin Italy to the Roman Empire (nowadays the eastern RE is called Byzantine), constructed the (first version of the) great domed church in Constantinople. The later version still stands (the dome collapsed a couple of times).
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05/12/2013 6:53:41 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: NoLibZone
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05/12/2013 6:54:20 PM PDT
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stuartcr
("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
To: Ciexyz
Informative read. Thanks for posting.
I second that.
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