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How was this published with wrong numbers? A simple wikipedia search gives you different estimates (parentheses) Plague of Justinian 541-542 100,000,000 (25-5
by teshier-A 7y ago
How was this published with wrong numbers? A simple wikipedia search gives you different estimates (parentheses)
Plague of Justinian 541-542 100,000,000 (25-50M)
Black Plague 1346-1350 50,000,000 (75-200M)
1918 Flu (Spanish Flu) 1918-1920 20,000,000 (50-100M)
- onetimemanytime 7y agowhat makes you think that Wikipedia has the right numbers? (if there is a discrepancy to begin with?)
- teshier-A 7y agoThere is a discrepancy, and Wikipedia is sourced... pretty hard to back the other one in this case isn't it ?
- branon 7y agoThe linked article teases the claim[0] that 100 million people perished due to the Plague of Justinian, while Wikipedia[1] places the highest estimate[2] at 50 million. [0] "Estimates believe 100 million people died during this time which was half the world population." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian [2] "Some historians believe the plague of Justinian was one of the deadliest pandemics in history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 25–50 million people during two centuries of recurrence, a death toll equivalent to 13–26% of the world's population at the time of the first outbreak."