1346. Caffa. Black Sea. "Plague"

346. Caffa. Black Sea.

After three years of siege, the Mongol army still couldn’t break the walls.

Then the plague hit their own camp.

Soldiers died by the hundreds.

So they made a desperate choice.

The first biological weapon in history.

Plague-infected corpses were loaded into catapults and hurled over the city walls.
Bodies crashed into streets, markets, homes.

Too late to stop it.

Within days, plague ripped through Caffa.
The city that survived years of war fell to disease in weeks.

Panicked Genoese merchants fled by ship—
already infected.

Those ships carried death to:
→ Constantinople
→ Sicily
→ Genoa
→ Marseille

Every port they touched became infected.

What began at one forgotten siege became THE BLACK DEATH.

1346–1353
75–200 million dead.
Half of Europe.
One-third of Asia and the Middle East.

The Mongols lost the siege.
But triggered the deadliest pandemic in history.

Worst victory ever.

Full story on YouTube — link in bio.

Would you have fled… or stayed?