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Justinian's Flea - Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Category: History
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that carries bubonic plague, was fin ...Show more
The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War, and the Famine History Forgot by William Rosen
Category: History
How a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history--years before the Black Death In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, f ...Show more
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century (HB) by William Rosen
Category: History
How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn't stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics killed nearly 80 percent of nor ...Show more
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