(Continued from the first part Light at the end of the tunnel – entering the tunnel) People needed something or someone to blame for the disease, for the death of all those near and dear ones. It was a period of utter desperation and hopelessness. Since rarely anyone understood biology, the real reason behind […]
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The first pestilence and the preceding famine had shaken the very foundation of the Byzantine empire. The Plague had killed millions of people all over the new Roman empire and Asia Minor, especially the city of Constantinople where 40% of the population was eradicated. The accuracy however is hard to gauge but the impact was
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It was May 11th, 330 AD, the day when the Roman emperor, Constantine the great would dedicate and rename the newly-worked-on Greek city of Byzantium Constantinople; for it to remain the largest and most prosperous city of Europe for almost a thousand years. It soon became a hub of trade, especially spices that were flowing
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The Rohingya people are stateless Indo-Aryan people from the Rakhine state of Myanmar. However, the Government of Myanmar does not recognize them as citizens. They are rather accorded the status of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh albeit they have been living in Myanmar for centuries. As reported in the Independent, ‘At least 10,000 members of
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