Does the black death disprove Europe's supremacy?

>>132180545
Is this bait? I fucking hope so...

>In the year 1.346, millions of Europeans die because of a plague and we in the 2000 don't, that means we are superior

>>132180545
America was a thing way later than the black death
Europeans have become immune or at least harder to infect with many shitty things, including aids die to them
And American mutts aren't something one with your flag should call superior
Basically
>>>>>American (((historical))) knowledge
Cease posting about anything before the formation of the USA until you fixed your education system.

>>132180545
No, it proves that when a far east civilization has 5000 years to develop a resistance to a strain of disease, then it gets exported to a civilization which has not been exposed to it, it's going to fuck shit up. It doesn't prove europeans and more inferior than smallpox proves central american are inferior, although they kind of are.

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Rise of the Merchant
One of the most powerful cities in history, also had nothing going for it in the beginning. At first look it was not supposed to succeed. Unlike other towns in the region like Lucca, Pisa, and Siena, Florence did not have a shoreline, so no sea trade like the Venetians, it did not have direct acess to trade routes on the land. It did not have any immediate access to natural resources, and it had limited agricultural production capabilities. Yet in spite of this it became one the largest cities in Europe with 120,000 living there. And outside of Rome itself, it was the wealthiest city and the greatest source of Renaissance art. The Florin was the American Dollar of the day.

Florence has little to no records of transactions until about the early 1100s, probably because of high taxes. Before this Merchants in Florence would use proxy towns in the surrounding area like Pisa, Lucca, and Siena to do business, where there are plenty of records of contracts and banking loans. But suddenly the same years that transactions took place in Florence the 1st walls of Florence were built (paid for by taxes). Florence made most of it's money selling wool and silk, and interest on banking loans. From the Levant, to all of Western Europe, and North Africa, it was the bank of Kings and Popes. Florence was where the Medici lived, who practically ruled all of Europe, and with their
peers, they financed the entire Renaissance. It was the Medici that found great artists like Michaelangelo, Boticelli, Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci, and 4 Popes were from that family.

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>>132184098
Their power slowly increased from the 1100s to 1500s, with a brief ShekelShoah right before the Black Plague in the mid 1300s. But after the black plague the Merchants they prospered bc God took care of the filthy goyim. Then suddenly something happened. In the 1500s trade contracted, kings stopped doing taking out loans, cities refused to commerce with Florence and dozens of other Merchant cities in Italy that also financed the Renaissance. At first it was in Northern Germany, and England but then it spread all through out Europe, until Florence totally shut down all it's banking and trading to Italy exclusively, except for certain places in Spain, France, and the city of Amsterdam. They were so skilled and YET in spite of overcoming every obstacle, especially early on, it became a husk of
it's former glory all in a single century. Also the same century as the Protestant Reformation. You see Protestants hated to commerce with Roman Catholics or Jews altogether. Suddenly all these patrons of the arts were without money to fund the Renaissance, so the Renaissance ended, choking them out in competition all over Europe until Florence had no power to even outsell Protestant made fabrics in their own city. This was the great banking war with the Business Goy and the Merchant lost, so the Renaissance had to be shut down. This was the second ShekelShoah of this age. So they packed up their bags and sailed all over the seven seas taking their florins and shekels with them. This commenced the Golden Age of Piracy in 1600 and 1700s.

>>132180545
Genetically, the best possible 'nation' is the one that has been exposed and survived the greatest amount of pathogen. During the colonization of Americas, Europeans that came from bloodlines that already survived the black plague (evolution 101) were being exposed to the pathogen of the new continent and fighting those too, essentially making future modern Americans genetically better.
Probably.

>>132180545
>In fact, research published in February in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that the plague did write itself into human genomes: The descendants of plague-affected populations share certain changes in some immune genes.
"Black Death Survivors and Their Descendants Went On to Live Longer"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/black-death-survivors-and-their-descendants-went-on-to-live-longer/

>>132184807
> Biologists at the University of Liverpool have discovered how the plagues of the Middle Ages have made around 10% of Europeans resistant to HIV.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/uol-bdw031005.php

>>132185060
It was a blessing in disguise.

>>132184807
>>132185060
Keeping the links, thanks. Good to have sauce for common sense deductions :DDD