Black Death

In this Alternate History the black death was far more severe and as a result there was a massive change in the political movements across Europe and Asia.

1355, Year of Slaughter
Another more aggressive strain of the Bubonic Plague breaks out in Constantinople, brining the city down to its knees. The Byzantines blame the Turks and start the Byzantine-Turk Plague War. Whilst the new strain spreads across Europe, killing a further 2% of Europe's population. The monarchs begin to worry as riots for food begin in Milan but spread to Paris, London and Madrid. Civil war began to seem more and more likely as the rioters were slowly killed off by the plague.

Plague Doctor Revolution
After the new strain the doctors of Europe were forced to come up with new remedies and started a mass burning campaign, which they found slowed the spread of infections. As a result across Western Europe whole towns and cities were set alight in the hope that it would kill the plague. Some plague doctors also believed that to rid the bad smells people would have to wash and so Roman baths were re-built an repurposed for public cleanliness to rid them of bad smells, which were believed to carry the plague.