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'''Kaffa''' was | '''Kaffa''' was a [[city]] on [[Earth]]. | ||
In [[1346]] the [[Mongol Empire]] under the rule of [[Janibeg Khan]] besieged Kaffa. According to the [[First Doctor]], many of the [[Mongol]] soldiers were killed by the [[bubonic plague]]. One of the Mongol commanders ordered that the bodies be catapulted over the wall into the city, which subsequently fell after the illness took hold. | |||
[[Dodo Chaplet]] feared the idea was possibly influenced by a similar strategy employed against the Mongols at [[Kyiv]] in the [[13th century]], and it came to be regarded as the first instance of biological warfare. Soon, Genoese merchants travelled across the Mediterranean, spreading the plague to ports in southern [[Europe]]. It moved on to [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Britain]], and then to [[Scandinavia]] and [[Greenland]]. One third of the European population died as a result of the plague. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bunker Soldiers (novel)|Bunker Soldiers]]'') | [[Dodo Chaplet]] feared the idea was possibly influenced by a similar strategy employed against the Mongols at [[Kyiv]] in the [[13th century]], and it came to be regarded as the first instance of biological warfare. Soon, Genoese merchants travelled across the Mediterranean, spreading the plague to ports in southern [[Europe]]. It moved on to [[Spain]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Britain]], and then to [[Scandinavia]] and [[Greenland]]. One third of the European population died as a result of the plague. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bunker Soldiers (novel)|Bunker Soldiers]]'') | ||
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