Black Death (Chaos)

As in OTL, the outbreak of the Black Death happened in 1337 (3034, Yin Fire Ox in the Chinese calendar) in the province of Hubei, . But because there was no world-spanning Mongol Empire without inner barriers, which helped trade enormously, and China itself was split too, it took much longer to spread.
== Spreading in : ==
*1340 (3037, Yang Metal Dragon): Black Death spreads all along the Yangtse.
*1344 (3041, Yang Wood Monkey): Black Death hits .
*1347 (3044, Yin Fire Pig): Black Death hits the South Chinese coast kingdom.
*1349 (3046, Yin Earth Ox): Black Death reaches .
*1352 (3049, Yang Water Dragon): Black Death hits in SW China.
*1353-59 (3050, Yin Water Snake / 3056, Yin Earth Pig): Black Death sweeps through .
*1355: empire struck by Black Death.
*1360: hit by Black Death.
*1362: Black Death in .
*1363/64: Black Death brought to by ships.
*1365-71: Black Death sweeps through Sultanate of .
*1372-75: Various South n states are struck by the Black Death.
== Spreading in the : ==
*1394-96: Black Death sweeps through Southern Russian states.
*1397: Western Russian states struck by Black Death.
*1397-1401: hit by Black Death.
*1399-1402: Black Death reaches and other eastern Russian states.
== Spreading in the : ==
*1374: Black Death reaches .
*1377-81: Black Death hits .
*1378-85: Black Death strikes , preventing a reconquest of Persia.
*1384-90: Seljuk lands struck by Black Death, which helps them losing the Crusade. The little isolated country of is spared by the plague, though.
*1387-89: hit by Black Death.
== Spreading in : ==
*1392/93: Black Death strikes , being introduced by returning crusaders. The king also dies of it.
*1394: Black Death arrives in .
*1394/95: Black Death hits the . is also affected, but by imposing a quarantine it's mostly saved; so is . Persecuted Jews flee to Poland, Flanders, Seljuk Balcans.
*1395: Other Italian states are hit by the Black Death (although there are some exceptions, like and ). The divine republic of Parma is especially shocked - their preachers promised them that God would spare them, which doesn't happen.
*1396: The lands of the are struck by Black Death.
== Spreading in : ==
*1396: Black Death arrives in , .
*1397/98: , Iberia (except ) and are struck by Black Death.
*1399: Black Death strikes .
*1400: is hit by the Black Death.
As a fast result of the Black Death, two new addictions spread through Europe: Liquor, known by the alchemists for longer time already, was (mis-)used as a cure against the plague. So was , which was brought from the New World and sold for high prices.
And finally, in 1435 Black Death hit the New World, destroying some small European settlements too; other trade places had to be given up, since the Atlantean trade partners had died or didn't want to have contact with the Europeans any more.
Category:Chaos
Category:Diseases