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  1. WI: Sweating Sickness never goes away

    What if the Sweating Sickness, the bane of Tudor England and parts of Europe from 1485 to 1551, had not disappeared after its last outbreak and continued, even in a weaker manner, to exist all the way to modern times (since it didn't work in a way that permits vaccination, as people who got it...

  2. Reducing Liberia’s Colonial Death Rate

    https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/34895/1342562.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y This study is one of many that underscores the point that Liberian settlers experienced a devastating death rate due to tropical diseases. The mortality rate was extremely high, and made it so that the...

  3. Tsetse flies in South East Asia? What happens?

    Tsetse flies are often blamed (perhaps justifiably) for hurting efforts to build large empires and cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Now of course cities and empires were built but it is poignant that the greatest empires such as Mali and Ethiopia were built in areas without tsetse flies. So somehow...

  4. WI: No/Less Severe Plague of Athens

    What if the Plague of Athens that struck the city-state during the second year of the Peloponnesian War had been less devastating, or hadn't happened at all? How might that affect the course of the war and other events?
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