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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion. (infosec.pub)
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[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plaque isn't spread by corpses, but by fleas

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

https://historycollection.com/mongols-used-plague-biological-weapon/

It also is spread by the buboes on the bodies that rupture and spread infected pus and bloos. Throw a bunch of bodies over a wall and one will eventually infect someone inside, who will infect everyone else.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

I mean... theorethically it could have helped spread it to the particular city, but I don't think that would've influenced the epidemic spread of the disease much. Locked-in besieged cities would -in themselves- been prime locations for the disease to teke hold.

In fact, your own article basicly states as much:

However, there’s no reason to tie the biological attack at Caffa with the introduction of the disease.