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== Origins == | == Origins == | ||
The plague disease, caused by ''Yersinia pestis'', is commonly present in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including in various areas of central Punth. Due to climate change in Punth, rodents began to flee the dried-out grasslands to more populated areas, spreading the disease. Nestorian graves dating to 1338–1339 in Pursat have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to Corumm | The plague disease, caused by ''Yersinia pestis'', is commonly present in populations of fleas carried by ground rodents, including in various areas of central Punth. Due to climate change in Punth, rodents began to flee the dried-out grasslands to more populated areas, spreading the disease. Nestorian graves dating to 1338–1339 in Pursat have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to Corumm, Kandara, and Tanhai. | ||
The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with increased trading technologies and capabilities, particularly in the Kandaran basin. By the mid-1330s, the plague had reached the seaports of Audonia, which since the start of the Crusades, were lousy with Levantine merchants. Plague was reportedly first introduced to Levantia via Burgoignesc traders from the Deric city of Rufus Concordia in 1347. During a protracted siege of the city by the opposing army catapulted infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants. The Burgoignesc traders fled, taking the plague by ship into the Vilaristre Conference and the south of Levantia, whence it spread north. | The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with increased trading technologies and capabilities, particularly in the Kandaran basin. By the mid-1330s, the plague had reached the seaports of Audonia, which since the start of the Crusades, were lousy with Levantine merchants. Plague was reportedly first introduced to Levantia via Burgoignesc traders from the Deric city of Rufus Concordia in 1347. During a protracted siege of the city by the opposing army catapulted infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants. The Burgoignesc traders fled, taking the plague by ship into the Vilaristre Conference and the south of Levantia, whence it spread north. | ||