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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regarding the controversy over where the Black Death came from – the Wikipedia entry suggests that it spread from the Mongol army besieging</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> a town in the Crimea, and from where there was spread by Genoese traders into Constantinople and the Mediterranean.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> No doubt there are other explanations as well, but the link to the silk roads and the Mongol Empire by Anievas and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> Nisancioglu</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">is not a wild Trotskyist plot!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN><A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death"><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"><U><FONT COLOR="#0563C1" FACE="Calibri">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-za"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Karl von Holdt</FONT></SPAN></P>
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From: Karl Von Holdt <karl@yeoville.org.za><BR>
Sent: Thursday, 01 April 2021 18:33<BR>
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Subject: Black Death - Wikipedia</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-za"></SPAN></P>
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