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Armenian Trade and the Black Death: A Silk Road Catastrophe
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a devastating chapter in medieval Armenian history: the Black Death of the 1340s and its impact on Armenia's trade networks and population. They discuss how the plague, known locally as the Great Mortality, swept through the Caucasus along the Silk Road, carried by Genoese merchants and Mongol caravans. The episode focuses on the Mamluk capture of Sis in 1375, the fall of the last Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, and the subsequent emigration of Armenian traders to Crimea and Poland. Key figures include King Levon V, the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf…
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