hi john and doves.
reading the 6 seals and being reminded about the black death.
maybe the seal with the black horse.

So historical.

And the 2 kings link to wheat denarius in 2 kings means the famine finally over by the hand of God.

The black death.

it was bigger than i realised and spread further.

black death

1347, plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea. The disease then disseminated across Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa claiming up to 60 percent of the population in a large-scale outbreak known as the Black Death. This first wave further extended into a 500-year-long pandemic, the so-called Second Plague Pandemic, which lasted until the early 19th century.

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The Black Death repeatedly returned, and Egypt was affected 58 times between 1347 and 1517.[1] The depopulation resulted in lower income from taxes, and that the irrigation system was not maintained and collapsed, resulting in less agriculture.[1] Especially in Southern Egypt, the country side were depopulated. However, in the cities the craftsmen were given better living conditions because they were fewer, which were similar to Western Europe.[1]

In Cairo, several quarters of the city were left depopulated, and the ruins of empty quarters of the city were described far in to the following 15th-century.[1] In 1434, the traveller Bertrandon de la Broquière described areas in Syria as empty, and Venetian envoys in Syria in the 15th-century reported about an almost abandoned agriculture.[1]

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Palestine

In April–May 1348, the Black Death migrated from the Northern Egypt to the city of Gaza in Palestine, where the population fled to the countryside, after which their homes were pillaged by criminals, who themselves died, while the peasants outside of the city reportedly fell down dead in their fields during their plowing.[1]

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Syria
In the Summer of 1348, the Black Death had reached Damascus in Syria. In Damascus, processions of prayer as well as fasting were organized, and both Muslims, Christians and the Samaritans participated in public praying processions to appeal to God to prevent the plague.[1] The number of death soon reached so many thousands that funerals could, for a long time period, no longer be arranged. Bodies were stacked in gardens and on the street, and on 31 October 1348, ibn Abi Hajalah noted that 263 bodies were stacked in the Umayyad Mosque.[1] When the Black Death reached Antakya, a great deal of the population fled from the city, but reportedly, their horses returned to the city without their owners, who were later found dead of the plague on the road from the city.[1]

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The Black Death was described by Ibn Battuta, who was in Aleppo in June 1348 when he was informed that the plague had reached Gaza, and travelled there via Homs, to which the plague had reached at the time, and arrived in Jerusalem, where the plague had already passed when he arrived, having killed almost all of the people with whom he had been acquainted with during his last visit.[1]

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