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  • Re: A more limited plagues in Europe

    From Byker@byker@do~rag.net to alt.history.what-if,soc.history.what-if on Sat Jul 20 15:06:29 2019
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    "SolomonW" wrote in message
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    The plague is believed to have hit Europe very hard several times.

    The two big ones are the Plague of Justinian around 550CE, which killed
    about a quarter of Eastern Europeans population and Black Death around 1350CE, which killed about 30% to 60% of the European population.

    Just think, had the bubonic plague wiped out all the Christian Europeans,
    the Americas would've remained undiscovered, with "noble savages" still
    running around and the entire Eastern Hemisphere forever stuck in a medieval time warp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEYwXLpBpfI

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