> The elephant in the room is that the Black Death's first outbreaks > were in China
Did China loose between a third and two thirds of its population to the Black Death?
If not, then we already have a situation where the epidemic was disproportionately deadly in Europe, as opposed to China. All the author's premise asks of us is to pretend that it was even more disproportionately deadly.
Re: Alternate Histories
> were in China
Did China loose between a third and two thirds of its population to the Black Death?
If not, then we already have a situation where the epidemic was disproportionately deadly in Europe, as opposed to China. All the author's premise asks of us is to pretend that it was even more disproportionately deadly.