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Tango01

03 Jan 2020 3:31 p.m. PST

…exaggerated.

"An ancient bubonic plague outbreak often characterized as a mass killer that felled Eurasian civilizations was actually pretty tame, researchers say.

Known as the Justinianic plague, the outbreak likely didn't cause enough deaths to trigger major events such as the eastern Roman Empire's decline, Islam's rise and the emergence of modern Europe, say environmental historian Lee Mordechai and his colleagues…"
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