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Nov 15, 2021 · History’s Seven Deadliest Plagues. SARS-CoV-2 has officially claimed 5 million lives, but credible estimates place the pandemic’s true death toll closer to 17 million. Either count secures COVID-19’s position on our list of history’s deadliest plagues. A masquerade historical scene reconstruction. Plague doctor in medieval old town.
These rats harbored fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague. When the rats died, the fleas would seek new hosts, transmitting the disease to humans. The first recorded outbreak of the plague occurred in the port city of Pelusium, in Egypt, in 541 AD. From there, it spread rapidly along maritime trade routes ...
Plague in the Eastern Roman Empire. Procopius of Caesarea (~490/507-c.560s) remains the best-known chronicler of the age of Justinian. His official works celebrated Justinian’s many achievements, including his building projects and military campaigns. However, Procopius’ Anekdota (often translated as Secret History) was a scathing attack on ...
Apr 26, 2024 · Justinian I (born 483, Tauresium, Dardania [probably near modern Skopje, North Macedonia]—died November 14, 565, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Turkey]) was a Byzantine emperor (527–565), noted for his administrative reorganization of the imperial government and for his sponsorship of a codification of laws known as the Code of Justinian ...
Jul 18, 2017 · The Plague of Justinian is a misleading term as it is estimated to have killed as many as 100 million people worldwide and decimated the European population by 50-60 percent. The estimated population of Constantinople during Justinian’s reign was about 500,000.
The 3 plague pandemics (caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis) are considered among the most infamous—and most fatal—biological events in human history.Significant recent scholarship has investigated the so-called First Pandemic, which began with the Justinianic Plague of circa 541 to 544 CE (hereafter JP), and reoccurred in western Eurasia and North Africa over the next two centuries (1 ...
Despite the catchy name, the Plague of Justinian was identified as the bubonic plague, otherwise known for its 14th Century cousin, “The Black Death.”. The disease earned its name from Justinian, the ruler of the Byzantine Empire at the time. It also has a double meaning, as Justinian’s handling of the crisis was almost its own form of ...
