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Originally Posted by Rain Man
What the heck is this plague of Justinian thing, and why wasn't I told about it?
How many people were on earth in the 6th century? It seems like this would have been a threat to the very existence of humanity.
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It decimated the Byzantine Empire and contributed to the rise of everyone's favorite religion. When they were still in their infancy and were starting to conquer the ME and many parts of the Byzantine Empire, the Byzantines were so decimated by this plague that they struggled to stop it (which they didn't obviously). Justinian survived it though, but it messed him up good.