Couldve the Black Death been prevented?

Dathi THorfinnsson

Zirantun said:
There still isn't any consensus as to what it was? And for that matter, whether or not it was the same thing every time it hit. Yersinia pestis does not adequately explain a number of the systems of the different plagues.

So, in theory, it could certainly have been. It just depends on what school of thought on which you want to base your timeline on and which plague you want to target. It would be difficult to get rid of all three though...
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Up until a couple of years ago, i wasof the school that 'black death' and 'bubonic plague' were two different things. But they have sequenced dna from black death victims, and its clearly Yersinia pestis, although a different strain from what we see today.

Certainly, there have been other plagues of other diseases, but it does look like the black death was Y.pestis.
 

Evan

Dathi THorfinnsson said:
Up until a couple of years ago, i wasof the school that 'black death' and 'bubonic plague' were two different things. But they have sequenced dna from black death victims, and its clearly Yersinia pestis, although a different strain from what we see today.

Certainly, there have been other plagues of other diseases, but it does look like the black death was Y.pestis.
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Wow; thanks. I hadn't heard of that genome sequencing before.
 

katchen

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The Jews had a much higher level of cleanliness than the people around them and did not generally come down with Bubonic Plague to the degree that their neighbors did. That''s why their neighbors thought that they poisoned the wells during the Black Death and killed most of the Jews of Europe at that time. So obviously Jewish levels of cleanliness included keeping rats out of homes.

So if th by the Jewish Khazars had been able to ally with the Kipchak Mongols instead of fighting them and being destroyed by them, and had been able to convince Birkai Khan to convert from Tengriism to Judaism, the Golden Horde might well have quarantined Europe from the Boack Death.

Unless other theories are true and it realy spread from Africa via Alexandria.
 

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katchen said:
The Jews had a much higher level of cleanliness than the people around them and did not generally come down with Bubonic Plague to the degree that their neighbors did. That''s why their neighbors thought that they poisoned the wells during the Black Death and killed most of the Jews of Europe at that time. So obviously Jewish levels of cleanliness included keeping rats out of homes.
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Jews tended to have middle-class urban lifestyles as much as was possible at the time. So that surely plays into it.

So if th by the Jewish Khazars had been able to ally with the Kipchak Mongols instead of fighting them and being destroyed by them, and had been able to convince Birkai Khan to convert from Tengriism to Judaism, the Golden Horde might well have quarantined Europe from the Boack Death.
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There's several hundred years between these things (Mongols and Khazars) and several whole migrations.

You'd have to make a very strong case to have both happen at the same place, same time.
 
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