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Not so clever, just neurotic enough to be informed about the rhings that horrify me.
Black plague is a fascinating disease. There were three plague pandemics, did you know that? The deadliest one was the first plague pandemic, also called The Plague of Justinian. It started in the Egyptian port city of Pelisium in 541CE before being imported into Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire where it then ravaged across Europe and the Near East. It gets its name from the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, who contracted the disease and later recovered from it. It was said that during the height of the plague in Constantinople the people were dying so quickly that they gave up all pretense of attemtpijg to dispose of bodies, so the corpses were stacked amd left to rot out in the streets. The plague was nkt just devastating due to the death toll caused by the disease directly, as the plague rampaged through the cluntry side, many farmers succumbed to the disease, which caused massive food shortages. This food shortage caused prices to skyrocket so the poorest among the citizenry were left to starve to death. Due to the high death toll the empire, which was already strained on funds due to Justinian engagin in warfare with the Oatrogoths and the Vandals, was unable to collect taxes from the people. In respknse Justinian enacted laws which required not just higher taxes to be paid by the living, but the living also had to pay the taxes of their neighbors who died.
