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what describes how plague affected the byzantine empire

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Answered by Anonymous
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The Plague of Justinian (541–542) was a pandemic that afflicted the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, especially its capital Constantinople, the Sassanid Empire, and port cities around the entire Mediterranean Sea.[1] One of the deadliest plagues in history, this devastating pandemic resulted in the deaths of an estimated 25 million (at the time of the initial outbreak that was at least 13% of the world's population) to 50 million people in two centuries of recurrence.[2][3]

In 2013 researchers found that the cause of the pandemic was Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague.[4][5] The plague's social and cultural impact during the period of Justinian has been compared to that of the similar Black Death that devastated Europe 600 years after the last outbreak of Justinian plague.[6] The principal historian during the 6th century, Procopius, viewed the pandemic as worldwide in scope.[1][7] Genetic studies point to China as having been the primary source of the contagion.[8]

The plague returned periodically until the 8th century.[1] The waves of disease had a major effect on the subsequent course of European history. Modern historians named this plague incident after the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I, who was emperor at the time of the initial outbreak; he contracted the disease himself but survive


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Answered by dreamrob
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Plague affected the byzantine empire:

• Plague is a disease it killed many of the population in the byzantine empire.

• Plague is distributed in the whole empire and subsequent strains are placed on the byzantine empire.

• The plague of Justinian was one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

• This disease was transmitted by the rats. Almost 13 to 16% of the population decline at the time of the first outbreak.

• Maybe this Plague disease has originated in or near the regions of China.

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