Going Viral, Medieval Edition
Going Viral, Medieval Edition
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And to be fair, Europe thrived a lot more after the plague, since massive labour shortages meant the value of labour shot up dramatically, improving the quality of life and culminating in the Renaissance.
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The plague is actually what ended feudalism in Europe.
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Not having to worry about managing your surplus sons helped a whole lot. Sending them out to crusade against the heathens took a lot of coordination and energy. Plague reversed that problem real fast.
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In the west! In the east? They switched to less laborious methods if need be, in fact laws were passed so that serf could no longer migrate away from their lords; making them the closest we have ever had to slavery with exception to the slaves we had
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IIRC the plague was also the thing that invented surnames.
Before you were just John, but after you had to travel to other cities and there might already be a John so you became John Smith or John
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More of the fleas’ fault than the rats.
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Yersinia pestis actually kills fleas. It causes a blockage in their intestines, causing them to starve. That means they will sting a lot in a futile attempt to get sustenance, but all that happens is that they regurgitate YP into the victim. It's a really neat mechanism but very unethical. I hope modern bioweapons labs have vegan alternatives.
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It wasn't actually the rats that caused the plague, fleas and other people were the largest vectors not rats. rats are actually really similar to cats and spend a lot of time cleaning themselves
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It was not the rats who bringed the plague but the flea/parasite what the rats hosted.
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The Misadventures of Flapjack has an episode where the kid has a rat that flings ticks at people that fuck with the kid. It uses it's tail like a whip.They all instantly get the black plague. So fuckt up and funny.
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Same thing we do every night, Pinky
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"Thriving" is a bit strong.
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