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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. | ||
In 1350 it was recorded to have spread to Venceia and from | In 1350 it was recorded to have spread to Venceia and from there ravaged Sarpedon. | ||
== Impacts == | == Impacts == | ||