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The Silk Road's Darkest Hour: How Trade Routes Became the Black Death's Highway
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- Caffa, 1346: Mongol forces besieging the Genoese trading post catapulted plague-infected corpses over the walls — the first recorded biological warfare - Genoese merchants fled by ship, carrying Yersinia pestis to Constantinople, Sicily, and Marseille within months - The trade network that distributed silk, spices, and paper also distributed the bacteria — same caravanserais, same ship holds, same rats - Demographic collapse: 30-60% of Europe died within 5 years; the Black Death permanently restructured both the Silk Road and European labor markets
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