[dangus]

Not just “along with Black Death.” Black Death in Europe was the result of Islamic germ warfare (although, of course, it might have eventually spread there anyway). Islamic practice in its wars against the (Byzantine) Roman Empire was to fling diseased corpses into cities.

[aruanan]

Not just “along with Black Death.” Black Death in Europe was the result of Islamic germ warfare (although, of course, it might have eventually spread there anyway). Islamic practice in its wars against the (Byzantine) Roman Empire was to fling diseased corpses into cities.

One of the earlier waves of Black Death is what made Islam possible because it weakened both the Roman and Persian Empires to the point that neither had to recruit Bedouins as mercenaries for their ongoing wars, leaving the Bedouins from Arabia with nothing better to do that start up a new religion and start their own wars against civilization.