-"How the plague changed the world"
0 1. Overview
According to Japanese official reports, two men died of COVID-19 mutant infection in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Experts say that at present, no one knows where the infected mutant strain comes from. So the question is, what if this happened in ancient times? Will change the direction of history! Of course, we are not talking about COVID-19 here, but a virus from Mongolia-plague. According to historical records, around the third century AD, the plague broke into Eurasia with Mongolian machetes, thus changing the historical trend of classical Europe.
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-"Zhou Li Tianguan Notes" records: 02. European continent under the plague.
According to historical records, in A.D. 165, the Roman emperor Aurelius led an army to counter the rebellion. After he returned to China, many of his men had fever, cough and even convulsions, which was a typical manifestation of plague. So, in the next 13 years, the residents of Rome began to live under the sickle of death. The highest day, it is said that 5000 people died! In the 5th century, the plague swept the Roman Empire again, killing nearly one third of the population of ancient Rome, and less than 10,000 people were able to fight.
Ladies and gentlemen, looking at the history books, we can easily find that this virus is not unique to ancient Rome. 15 19, Spanish colonists brought smallpox to Aztec city in Central America, killing 20 million people. At the same time, syphilis, a deadly virus in the United States, has quietly landed in Europe. There is also the Spanish flu in the 20th century, and the plague that extended from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties in China. At this point, a virus circle covering four continents was formed, which directly affected people's literature and art and psychology.
Skills, knowledge and organization will change, but the vulnerability of human beings in the face of epidemic situation is unchangeable. Infectious diseases that existed before early human employment will always exist with human beings and will, as always, become one of the basic parameters and decisive factors affecting human history.
-"Plague and Man"
03. What did the ancients do in the face of viruses?
Ladies and gentlemen, facing the Japanese COVID-19 mutant, we will invent a vaccine, isolate it and adopt all high-tech means. What about the ancients? What will they do? First of all, like medieval Rome, Justinian the Great gave a dead order, asking residents to stay at home and not go out, and then sent soldiers to patrol and found some wandering in the streets. Execute it immediately! Secondly, like China in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, according to the reader, in order to fight the virus, people scattered realgar in front of and behind their houses, burned wormwood, and some even ate garlic desperately. There is also the United States during World War I, which improved the national public health system to fight the virus.
Of course, without the support of scientific and technological means and theories, these methods may not be able to completely eliminate the virus. The fear of death brought by the virus is still with us. Therefore, people began to seek comfort from religion. For example, in Europe in the 3rd century, under the threat of the Black Death, people invented a new dance-the dance of death. According to experts' research, the rapid development of Christianity in medieval Europe was also related to the spread of plague. For China, Confucianism of Confucius could not solve the plague in Wei and Jin Dynasties, so Taoism and Buddhism took advantage of it and used Fuyong and Heart Sutra to soothe people's fears. Finally, the three religions began to merge and realized the so-called integration of the three religions.