To: SunkenCiv
GGG Ping.
I'll pick box #1, A decrease in solar activity.
2 posted on
02/27/2006 10:54:41 AM PST by
blam
To: blam
This theory sounds as good as any created by randomly cutting and pasting words from a article in the NYT.
4 posted on
02/27/2006 10:59:29 AM PST by
Fielding
(Sans Dieu Rien)
To: blam
Actually it was the other way around. The Bubonic Plague was caused by the lower temps. The lower temps resulted in mass starvation and mal nutrition, which lowered resistance to disease. That added to the ignorance about rats(before the French ate all of them) and hygiene.
The Plague could reside in you, and when you were weakest emerge and kill you in days. It would not be a problem in this time.
20 posted on
02/27/2006 11:54:37 AM PST by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
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