How does it compare to smallpox in that regard?

Black Death travelled much faster than any spread of Yersinia pestis we know about not only that it spread much wider.

I always thought the prevailing knowledge was that the fleas on the rats were how it got from the east to the west, and then once it was rooted it spread through human contact.

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To spread so rapidly you’d think it would have to be from people coughing on each other, or drinking from the same ladle or something. Very odd.

Trade, not migration, whether it's the vector, is debated

This is what most believe.

Black death is different than other plagues in that it spread very rapidly as such some like me think it needs a different vector than rats.

I always assumed that after the fleas from rodents introduced it into a population, it would then spread through human contact.

That's interesting, there was a decent amount of migrating between places then.

Everyone was involved in the slave trade, blacks, whites, Muslims, pagans, christains, male and females.

The article raises the question of whether the bubonic form of the plague relied on slow-moving rodents for transmission or if it could spread more efficiently through direct human contact through ectoparasites or respiratory and touch transmission.

Another possibility is birds

I think I’ve figured out the code based on this page.

Tsar Nicholas II would definitely fit that last line

Keegan excellent writer and historian thou once or twice strayed a little from his expertise, his book on American Civil War and also on Naval warfare "Price of Admiralty " where a little below his normal quality ,but considering quanity he wrote is understandable

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Recently I've found myself more interested with Asian history, this falls from Arabia all the way to Japan, and I find it very interesting.

Recently I've been studying Japanese history, and hearing what the Chinese wrote down about them makes me very interested, and I really want to learn their history. So far I can find proper, well done series on Indian history or Afghanistan history,

But I really cannot seem to find any good playlists of anything on Chinese or Vietnamese history, not even Korean history which is what I really would like to learn.

So with the introduction out of the way, do any of you know any good documentary series (Episodes that can be an hour long or more) or short videos (usually 10 minutes or longer) for general history of China, Korea and Vietnam? I'm looking to go back to around as far back as I can go, but I really don't know where to start. So, if any of you could help me I'd be grateful, thank you.

PS: For examples on what I'm trying to reference as "long/short" videos is that I'm looking for (preferably) videos that are often long documentaries, or short videos that give basic yet good rundowns. (A good example being Linfamy on YouTube), again, thank you.

I don’t know much about Roman history, but I only have this to offer: it’s tricky to decide how we categorise groups of peoples. Do we split them by race, religion, culture, customs, physical borders such as mountains, climates? The list is endless. The borders between actual peoples are blurred, whilst human-implemented borders such as states and countries and empires are forced and definite. You can’t tell A that they belong absolutely to A if their characteristics are blended with that of B. The problem you’re encountering is that you, like most historians, want an absolute term to categorise a wide group of peoples when the answer may simply be that they both are and aren’t similar to the rest of the Roman Empire.

They called themselves Roman. The rest of the world at the time called them Romans. Some modern historian decides they’re not Roman and so we call them Byzantines… Makes sense.

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On that recommendation, I put The Mask of Command on my tbr pile.

I rather enjoyed The Real Hornblower: The Life And Times Of Admiral Sir James Gordon, Gcb https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905075.The_Real_Hornblower

Should also check out his other books. Empires of the Sea, and Conquerors, are both fantastic, and cover some lesser known battles

Check out the Hussites. Real interesting period in military history. And the Hussites are a fascinating group that developed a method of fighting that allowed previously untrained peasants to fight head to head with one of the most powerful military forces of their time.

Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution, by Victor Verney is a great start.

I'm also finished with The Realm of Saint Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary. It's political, cultural, and economic history. The weirdest moments, so far, have been:

• András II's wife, Gertrude, getting hacked into tiny pieces on a hunting trip by angry Hungarian nobles. The murder was probably motivated by her favoring of Germans, particularly her own brothers.
• Béla IV begging his nobility to support him against the Mongols and them being like, "LOL, no. Everything will be fine!" (Spoiler alert: It wasn't.)
• László IV abandoning his Neapolitan princess bride for a Cuman, possibly becoming a pagan himself, and getting murdered by another Cuman because of romantic rivalry.
• Lajos I invading Naples to avenge the murder of his brother and then squandering all good will by ordering the beheading of Charles de Durazzo.
• Another Charles de Durazzo (nephew and son-in-law of the beheaded Charles) overthrowing and murdering Jeanne I of Naples with Lajos' OK (because she was the wife of Lajos' murdered brother), but then deciding to claim Hungary too after Lajos' death instead of his daughter, Maria. He then sent away most of his guard and was promptly murdered by Lajos' disgruntled widow, Elizabeta Kotromanić, who put her daughter back on the throne.
• Ulászló II declaring war on Lovro Iločki for calling him an ox.
• The Hungarian nobility right before the Ottoman invasion being more interested in enhancing their own wealth than defending the country. (Much as they'd done before the Mongol invasion 300 years earlier.)