How did the Black Death affect Africa and Asia? (Short Animated Documentary)
How did the Black Death affect Africa and Asia? (Short Animated Documentary)
The Bubonic Plague (Stage name: The Black Death) tore across Europe in the mid 14th century, depopulating parts of the continent. The focus of the epidemic is almost always on Europe but what about the rest of the world? How did the Black Death affect Africa and Asia (the Americas were fine)?
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"Calm down, it's just a flu bro" mfs:
Europe:
“God has abandoned us, this is punishment for all of our sins”
Middle-East:
“Ah, a pandemic. Is it that time of the year again, Khalil?”
“Yes, working from home is nice”
Im a muslim from Pakistan
So fun and kinda horrifying fact: I was taking a college course on medieval history back in like 2017ish, and when the time came for a lecture about the Black Plague, church bells started ringing outside the lecture hall, making for a very creepy effect.
Regardless how ass backwards China was until the half of the 20th century, they must have had biolabs and the best scientists capable of creating chemical weapons, to have released this many plagues across the globe.
Europe has the false concept that their having a problem means everyone else does. No. Black death was not Africa's problem. World War I and II were Europeans issues and not African issues. I know it seems like rocket science to the entitled. But people have to learn and understand it because denying reality is a bad idea.
There is one major portion of the world which definitely was NOT touched by the Black Death, and you did not mention it in your otherwise wonderful cartoon: the Americas. The reasons were obvious: the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
South east is save by the seas
Is there any recorded history of a disease in the Americas that had a similar impact that the Black Death did?
The cure was just spices 😂😂
I love how the plague was literally shown holding a suitcase 😂
It would be interesting to know how the black plague affected inner Africa, because it came from inner Africa. Might have just been a normal disease that the locals were immune to.
No written records:
No crimes, no wars, no massacres, no genocides, no disease, no famine, no slavery, no unemployment, no oppression, no injustice…
Utopia! Illiteracy, ignorance, apathy and negligence will one day solve all the ills and evils of the world.
Sad fact: plagues and natural disasters actually occur more in Western countries than others. Bad management and evil leadership is the curse of Africa
the virus did go down to mid Africa but dew too vast population distant and all most no trade dew to jungles
I think it did reach them, they just didnt know that it was plaque, same way if we didn't know that covid was here, we would just treat it like normal cold
Didn't the plague come from asia?
It started in China.
too fast to read what you're writing on those signs, slow it down or write less.
Fleas have a hard time surviving ultra-low humidity, "arid" areas.
This describes about how I feel about the Panic of 2019. It was part of life, it wasn't a big deal, and if we lock people down, it will destroy local economies.
And there is evidence that the Panic of 2019 didn't devastate parts of the world that didn't care about it, just like the Plague.
…where the hell is “Chiner”?
I’m still surprised that religion continued to hold so much power after the Black Death. I know that the Church deluded people to believe it was a sign of God’s anger etc., but didn’t anyone ever think God was being kind of mean? But I’m forgetting that the Church-State burned anyone who criticized it.
There was also the plague of Justinian which is one of the main reasons for the collapse of the western Roman empire.
The way you say that Muslims and Christians saw disease differently isn't really true. Both saw it as either divine punishment or just God's unknowable will or a test of faith. The difference is in how scripture tells or doesn't tell you how to react to this. The Bible does have preventative measures from disease. Such as separating yourselves from the sinners like the good Hebrews had to do when God struck them with disease in the desert, killing heretics, or using worship or, in the case of jesus and the apostles, using exorcism, or repenting( like had to be done by David to stop the disease sent to Jerusalem), or that it is a test of faith like Job, or that you can punish yourself like Nineva, or that you should deny yourself or be a monk. Islamic scripture accepts repenting, accepts that this is a test of faith, or that it is duly deserved punishment that you must put up with, or that it is a result of heresy, or that it is just how nature must be and isn't special. Islamic scripture however rejects separation from the diseased like quarantine, does not accept that disease is a result of possession by Jinn/demons (Jinn can only cause insanity), do not accept self harm as atonement for disease, and are against monasticism
Another fact is in Islamic sources the entire idea of pandemics are rejected and to admit to their existence would be heresy. This is in authentic hadith (the sayings of Muhammad);
Sahih al-Bukhari 5717: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'There is no 'Adwa (no disease is conveyed from the sick to the healthy without Allah's permission), nor Safar, nor Hama." A bedouin stood up and said, "Then what about my camels? They are like deer on the sand, but when a mangy camel comes and mixes with them, they all get infected with mangy." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Then who conveyed the (mange) disease to the first one?". There are actually many hadith that say this again and again. Infection and infectious diseases are not an Islamic concept. They are expressly rejected as existing. In Islam you get ill because it is Allah's will, that is all.
good yob
Scotland didn’t suffer so much because we didn’t have so many highly populated areas.
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