Or maybe the Plague of Justinian-this plague struck in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between 30 and 50 million people—about half the world's population at that time—as it spread across Asia, North Africa, Arabia, and Europe. Black Death not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plague between 1347 and 1351. World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
I’ve heard that thousands of peasants crowded into the walled city because of a war, living in fear, disgusting amounts of sewage, overcrowded squalor, and starvation. I’m not surprised there was disease. How is this the “genesis of the world we have now”?
Or maybe the Plague of Justinian-this plague struck in the sixth century and is estimated to have killed between 30 and 50 million people—about half the world's population at that time—as it spread across Asia, North Africa, Arabia, and Europe. Black Death not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plague between 1347 and 1351. World War I claimed an estimated 16 million lives. The influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. One fifth of the world's population was attacked by this deadly virus. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
That Athenian plague is the genesis of the world that we have now.
I’ve heard that thousands of peasants crowded into the walled city because of a war, living in fear, disgusting amounts of sewage, overcrowded squalor, and starvation. I’m not surprised there was disease. How is this the “genesis of the world we have now”?
It bought about Plato and arguably Socrates.
Maybe a harbinger of the present times as well. Rinse, repeat.