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EP16 Powers Thrones and Dan Jones

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Justinian Plague

Justinianic plague in the sixth century, unnamed for the great byzantine emperor justinian. It seems to do a similar thing to what happens in the fourteenth century the black death: it mutates and becomes very ects. Just as as covin 19 is a corona virus, one of the group of viruses that became incredibly virulent and incredibly infectious. There is evidence that the disease found its way as far afield, certainly as germany, into western europe. And there is massive disparity in the estimates of how many people died of the justinianic,. which ranges from tens of millions to about 100 thousand.

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