Was this literally the Dark Souls of history?

>China destroys half of Europe with disease: Lol, dumb savages
Who are you quoting?

His persecution complex

>Europeans had a perfect understanding of germ theory 300 years before people even know what germs fucking were
This is the dumbest fucking shit I swear to God, if you think critically about it for even half a fucking second it's obviously bullshit.

Unironically yes

>Lol, dumb savages
Except that nobody says this

Different species of flea parasitize different animals. Cat fleas are different from horse fleas, for example. And it was rat fleas that carried the black death, so while you're correct the picture is also correct to show rats.

There's one documented instance where a British officer contemplated doing this during the French and Indian War. That's it. That's literally all the "evidence" there is, and from that spawned a meme that it actually definitely happened and then went further out of control all the way to "this thing happened all the time".

Now remember that this was a different time; when people massacred indians they didn't try to hide what they'd done. Rather they would brag about it and celebrate. So if it had actually happened there would be all sorts of documentation and it'd be impossible to deny.

Normies and mainstream enlightenment following historians always talk of the middle ages as if it was the age of the dumb savage chimps, hence the term "dark ages" being popular.

As the accomplishments of the era came to be better understood in the 18th and 20th centuries, scholars began restricting the "Dark Ages" appellation to the Early Middle Ages (c. 5th–10th century).[6][7][8] Many modern scholars avoid the term altogether due to its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate.[9][10][11] The original definition remains in popular use,[1][2][12] and popular culture often employs it as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.[13]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)

Yeah, that's wrong. The more we've learned about the "Dark Ages" the more we've realized it wasn't as simple as what you suggest people think. Sounds to me like you're just putting up strawmen to tear down.

>The original definition remains in popular use,[1][2][12] and popular culture often employs it as a vehicle to depict the Middle Ages as a time of backwardness, extending its pejorative use and expanding its scope.

>Normies and mainstream enlightenment following historians

>Normies and mainstream enlightenment following historians
It was renaissance historians who popularized the meme actually, and it's discredited these days.

You learn all your history from Reddit, don't you?

The Dark Ages have nothing to do with the Black Death. In fact historians see the Black Death as a turning point in European history that set the West on the track to global domination.
So basically, stop talking out of your arse.

The black death happened right in the middle of what the average Joe thinks of as "the dark/middle ages"

Stop pretending you know what people think about history, because most people aren't nearly as dumb as you seem to think.
Even historical mini-series and pop historians make a massive emphasis on the difference between the "Dark Ages," (Vikings and anarchy) and the "Middle Ages" (knights and castles) that followed. People mightn't know the dates, but the Black Death is associated with the Middle Ages, not the Dark Ages.

>the Chinese didn't try to take advantage of the black plague and follow up with the extermination of Europe.

kek what fucking losers

A lot of people don't realize how big this was. The Black Death was the deadliest even in human history, most estimates say it killed 75-150 million people or so(while WWII killed 60 million). And this was in a world with a population of only a few hundred million.

Without this plague, feudalism probably would have lasted longer, because as the plague decimated the population, there were more jobs available and wages were forced up. So the serfs got more power. Also, the Protestant Reformation could have been delayed as well as the church lost credibility with the plague. John Wycliffe, one of the proto-reformers of the Middle Ages, was affected by the plague and he had a massive impact on Luther, Calvin, etc.

The entire 14th century was the Dark Souls of History if you think about it

>Great Famine hits the entire continent, millions dead, people resorting to cannibalism just to survive on a daily basis
>just as the Famine pass and the continent starts recovering, the Plague hits and nearly kills everyone
>Warm period is gone and the Little Ice Age starts, agriculture, fishing and trade gets fucked in the ass
>Interregnum in the HRE, near total chaos in Germany
>Hundred Years' War

I'm surprised there was anything left standing in Europe after all that shit.

You mean the mongols?

You don't need germ theory

>some smelly Yuropoor dies of smallpox
>give his blankets to his brother
>brother dies of smallpox
>start to see relationship between the dead person's shit and someone else dying

No, it actually happened several times, both by early settlers and later by American soldiers in the 1870s. The 2nd one didn't work because thats not how that particular disease is spread.

>China destroys half of Europe with disease: Lol, dumb savages
fucking no one says this

The only "Dark Souls" of history will be the actual end of the earth among the last people trying to hold the last pieces of a dead world together.

Was Sardinia reallly discovered at this time?

I would say america was worse during the conquest. Francisco de Aguilar a conqueror whow as with Cortes lamented the devastation of the land in 20 years was depopulated and the great city of zempoala he mentions as having over 20 000 houses now had less than 20.