Talk:7th century

Plague of Justinian - wrong century?

The article on the Plague of Justinian says it was 541–542 AD. - i.e. in the 6th Century. Attributing this particular disease to be the cause of worldwide population collapse is unsubstantiated in that article, also. I recall somewhere an article about a worldwide atmospheric event in that year, causing cold winters, crop failures, stillbirths, mental and physical disability (including of adults, and causing the collapse of civil order as well as artistic craftsmanship, engineering knowledge etc) etc - a yellow rain, thought to be volcanic or meteoric/cometic in origin, and it was written up in some major newspaper like the NYT or one of hte main UK papers, and syndicated to the Canadian newspaper where I read about it; that was in the 600s, as I recall, i.e. the 7th Century. The Plague of Justinian was still around in the 7th Century, but as noted the article only talks about its presence in Europe and does not connect the dots to Asia, Africa etc....also, the article on the weather event(s) talked about how it also affected MesoAmerican and Central American civilizations, where a plague from Greece could not have reached...but which also suffered population collapse as well as, with everywhere else, a collapse of economy and culture; wish I knew where to cite that, but once found it needs to be in this article....Skookum1 (talk) 15:32, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

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