To: MeanWestTexan
AIDS may do the same thing in Africa. That and everybody killing each other.
25 posted on
04/10/2008 4:33:56 PM PDT by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
The Justinian plague likely set the stage for the success of the Muslim invasions. The disease so weakened the Eastern Empire that if you look at the old sources the Islamic armies had little opposition.
29 posted on
04/10/2008 4:42:28 PM PDT by
Reily
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