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Asia got all the same plagues as Europe

• dredmorbius 6y ago
  The two regions often responded very dissimilarly. nKyle Harper'sbThe Fate of Rome looks at this in depth. TL:DR; civilisation's patterns (cities, trade, travel) co-evolve diseases. Populations tend to evolve resistance to local endemic disease, but are susceptible to novel agents, including foreign infections. Rome infected China and vice versa.