I say “worldwide” to mean a large geographic area that was interconnected somehow.
Is there any historical evidence of mass death due to disease (or other natural phenomena) where a significant portion of the population in a socio-geographic area was affected aside from the black death in Europe? (Im thinking in places like China, or Middle East. Basically, anywhere with written records going back into antiquity).
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I’m really having trouble wording this question clearly. Hope its understandable.
Another devastating one from earlier in history was “Justinian’s Plague” ( named after the last great East Roman, as opposed to Byzantine, Emperor ), which is surmised to have started ~540 C.E. in central Africa and lasted until at least 590 ( or 767 depending who’s counting ), spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, killing many millions ( the exact numbers are in dispute, but regardless were huge relative to population ). It’s considered one of the big reasons ( in addition to the simple ruinous cost of his wars ) that Justinian’s attempt to rebuild the universal Roman empire, particularly in the west, proved somewhat ephemeral.
