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Episode 456: The Black Death Part I - Stomp a Gerbil, Bribe a Rat

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The Golden Horde and Kaffa's Armies

The people of Kaffa settled into a siege when the Golden Horde showed up. The survivors began to place the corpses into catapults to love them into the city. They believed that the sheer stench of the corpses would be enough to kill everyone inside, because it was common at the time to think that smells were fatal.

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