These are fifteen pandemics that changed history

Infectious diseases existed during the ancient era, but the transition to agrarian life 10,000 years ago created a space that made the epidemics more likely. During this period malaria, tuberculosis, lepers, flu, measles, and so on appeared for the first time.

The more civilized people became by building cities and creating trade routes in connection with other cities, and making wars between them, the easier were the opportunities to be affected by pandemics. Below are pandemics that, by destroying the human population, changed history.

1,430 BC: Athens

The earliest recorded pandemic occurred during the Peloponnesian War. After the disease passed through Libya, Ethiopia, and Egypt, she crossed the Athenian walls at the same time that Spartans made the siege. Nearly two thirds of the population died.

Symptoms included fever, thirst, bloodshed, red skin.

2. Year 165: Antonine plague

The Antonine plague was probably an early typhus show that started with the noses. The noses infected the Germans, who passed it on to the Romans and then the returned troops spread it throughout the Roman Empire. Symptoms included fever, throat pain, diarrhea, and skunk wounds. This epidemic continued until the 180 ' s, Emperor Marcus Aurelius was one of its victims.

3. Year 250: Cyprian Mortar

Baptismd in the name of the first known victim, the Cyprian plague caused diarrhea, vomiting, ulcers in the throat, fever, and gangrene of hands and feet.

The city's inhabitants fled to the village to escape infection, but instead they spread the disease more. Perhaps beginning from Ethiopia, he passed through North Africa, Rome, then Egypt.

In 444 she struck Britain by forcing the British to seek help from the Saxons, who would soon search the island.

4. Year 541: Justinian Plague

It first appeared in Egypt, the Justinian plague spread from Palestine and the Byzantine Empire, and then throughout the Mediterranean.

The plague changed the course of the history of the empire, disrupting Emperor Justinian's plans to unite the Roman Empire again and trigger a massive economic struggle. It is also said that it produced an apocalypse that promoted the rapid spread of Christianity.

The disease killed some 50 million people, 26 percent of the world's population.

5. 11th century Leproza

Although it had been for centuries, the lepers turned into pandemics in Europe in the Middle Ages, resulting in the construction of numerous hospitals focused on leper disease to accommodate a large number of affected ones.

A slow - developing bacterial disease that causes wounds and deformities, the leper was believed to be a punishment from God inherited from the family. That opinion led to moral judgments and injuries to victims. Already known as Hansen's disease, and it still affects tens of thousands of people a year and can be fatal if it is not treated with antibiotics.

6. Black Death, 1350

Caused for the death of one third of the world's population, he began in Asia and moved west from caravans. By entering Sicily in 1347 A.D. when the sickmen arrived at the port of Messina, it spread rapidly across Europe. The dead bodies became so numerous that they remained undead enough to create a overwhelming smell in the cities.

England and France were so paralyzed by the plague that they decided to cease the war. The plague changed economic circumstances and demographics by bringing the collapse of the British feudal system. By destroying the population in Greenland, the Vikings lost the strength to carry out the battle against the local population and thus stopped their exploration toward North America.

7. Colombian Trade, 1492

After the Spanish arrival of the Caribbean, diseases such as typhus, measles, and bubonic plague were transmitted to local populations by Europeans. Without prior exposure, these diseases destroyed the indigenous population, causing about 90 percent to die in all northern and southern continents.

In 1520, the Aztec Empire was destroyed by a smallpox infection brought by African slaves. Research in 2019 even concluded that the death of some 56 million local Americans in the 16th and 17th centuries may have changed earth's climate largely through illness

8. Year 1665: London's Great Plague

The bubonic plague led to the death of 20 percent of London's population. As the number of human deaths increased, hundreds of thousands of cats and dogs were slaughtered as a possible cause of disease, and the disease spread through Thamas. The peak of the blast came in the fall of 1666.

9. The first cholera pandemic, 1817

The first of seven cholera pandemics over 150 years, this wave of small intestine infection began in Russia, where one million people died.

I spread through the water and food infected by the battery. Bacterium was passed on to British soldiers who brought him to India, where millions more died. Contacts of the British Empire and its Navy spread cholera in Spain, Africa, Indonesia, China, Japan, Italy, Germany, and America, where they killed 150,000 people. A vaccine was created in 1885, but pandemics continued.

10. The plague's third pandemic, 1855

Starting in China and moving to India and Hong Kong, the bubonic plague claimed 15 million victims. India faced the main victims, and the epidemic was used as justification for oppressive policies that sparked a revolt against the British. Pandemia was active until 1960

11. Fury's Pandemia 1875

After Fiji was given to the British Empire, a royal delegation visited Australia as a gift from Queen Viktoria. As soon as it arrived during an outbreak of measles, the royal delegation brought the disease to their island and spread further from the pride of the tribe and the police who met with them after their return.

Soon the island was filled with corpses that became food for wild animals. A third of Fiji's population, 40,000 people died.

Twelve. Russian flu, 1889

The first flu pandemic began in Siberia and Kazakhstan, later in Moscow and penetrated Finland and later into Poland, where it spread to the rest of Europe. By the following year, he had crossed the ocean into North America and Africa. At the end of 1890, 360,000 victims reported.

13.Spanish Grip, 1918

The Spanish flu is thought to have originated in China and has been spread by Chinese workers who were transported by railways across Canada on their way to Europe. In North America, the flu first appeared in Kansas in early 1918 and emerged in Europe from spring. Press reports reporting on a flu outbreak in Madrid in the spring of 1918 led to the nickname pandemic as “The Spanish Empire”.

14. Asian flu, 1957

Starting in Hong Kong and spreading throughout China, and then in the United States, the Asian flu spread to England, where 14,000 people died over six months. A second wave was followed early in 1958, causing a total of about 1.1 million deaths globally, with 116,000 deaths in the United States alone.

15. HIV / AIDS, 1981

First identified in 1981, AIDS destroys one person's immune system, resulting in eventual death from diseases that the body would usually fight. Those HIV-infected persons had fever, headaches and lymph nodes stretched out after infection. When the symptoms left, the infection remained in the bloodstream.

AIDS was first observed in the gay American communities, but it is believed to have been developed by a chimpanzee virus from West Africa in the 1920 ' s. The disease, which spreads through certain body fluids, opened in Haiti in the 1960s, and then New York and San Francisco in the 1970s.

35 million people worldwide have died of AIDS since its discovery, and a cure has not yet been found.