To: Jimmy Valentine
Is there much evidence that the plague of the early sixth century (Justinian's plague) was from the same y pestis as the Black Death?
32 posted on
10/20/2010 11:05:07 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
The Book says so. The postulate is that the plague was so severe that it killed over 75,000 people in the Byzantine Empire, primarily Constantinople and spread north up the trade routes from there.
This so weakened the Byzantines that subsequent threats (humans) could not be effectively countered.
37 posted on
10/21/2010 2:34:30 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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