Timeline for Making a Plague Worse?
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| Oct 29, 2018 at 20:14 | vote | accept | Arkenstein XII | ||
| Oct 29, 2018 at 15:24 | answer | added | anon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 29, 2018 at 12:07 | comment | added | nzaman |
However, each subsequent outbreak during this period was less deadly than the previous; likely due to the propensity of pathogenic organisms to adapt in such a way that they actually don't kill their host! Alternatively. due to the hosts' immune systems adapting to fight the pathogen
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| Oct 29, 2018 at 9:20 | answer | added | Alberto Yagos | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 22:22 | comment | added | Arkenstein XII | Well, it certainly fell hard, but it was left with the capacity to develop and regain influence in the second millennium AD. The timeline I am envisaging alters European history in such a way that it never regains any form of dominance. A worsening of the Plague of Justinian is the first step in that chain. Possibly followed by the conquest of Europe by the Sassanian Empire. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 22:18 | comment | added | AlexP | "Europe fails entirely": but it did fail entirely, didn't it? In the 6th century the economic base of the Roman Empire was in Syria and Egypt, and to lesser extent in Asia Minor. Europe remained an utterly unimportant place until the 13th century, and then it took it four more centuries to build an economic base (and military power) comparable with the Ottoman, or Persian, or Chinese empires. We study the history of Europe not because it was important at that time, but because the European civilization eventually won; but that was a thousand years later. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 22:03 | answer | added | Tim B II | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 22:02 | comment | added | Arkenstein XII | @AlexP Yeah, I'm looking for a historical divergence through which Europe fails entirely. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 22:00 | comment | added | Arkenstein XII | @Cadence Natural mechanisms, yes. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 21:58 | comment | added | Cadence | Are we talking natural mechanisms, or deliberate engineering or use as a weapon? | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 21:57 | comment | added | AlexP | Killing off the last hope of survival for the classical civilization is not enough for you? When Justinian's plague struck, the (Eastern) Roman Empire had reconquered Italy, northern Africa and a fair chunk of Iberia, and had re-established its control over the Mediterranean. Then the plague struck, the economic base collapsed, and the descent into the Middle Ages became unavoidable. | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 21:53 | history | edited | Arkenstein XII |
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| Oct 28, 2018 at 21:43 | history | asked | Arkenstein XII | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
