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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
PBS7y
History of Quarantine
In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.
The American Conservative9y
Byzantine Empire—or Republic?
Byzantine emperors therefore lived in fear of the people and did whatever they could ... s thousand years was the Nika revolt of 532, when Justinian the Great, at the urging of Empress Theodora ...
BBC2y
Justinian and Theodora: The Byzantine power couple
Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...
Greek Reporter8d
The Byzantine Ambassadors of Ancient China
The Byzantine Empire maintained an intriguing relationship with ancient China, thus sending ambassadors there.
Epic History on MSN16d
Belisarius The Emperor's Sword
Meet Belisarius, the legendary general known as "The Emperor’s Sword." Discover how his loyalty to Emperor Justinian and his unmatched tactical brilliance laid the foundation for some of the Byzantine ...
With its beautiful Byzantine mosaics, Ravenna only gets better with age
Pre-dating Justinian, the mosaics here are purely ancient. Even Jesus is dressed in gold and purple, like a Byzantine emperor ...