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It can be called the Jochid Khanate.

But the Mongol state that controlled the land in that area, they were fighting each other.

And the Mongol army experienced this disease.

People started to get sick.

And so the story that people believed...

The explanation for how Black Death ended up moving from Asia to Europe was that what they did was throw bodies, catapult bodies over the walls into this besieged city.

And so the people inside the city started getting sick and they abandoned the city and fled, but they took the disease with them.

And so when these ships that were fleeing the siege went back to Italy, the people on the ship spread the disease to Italy.

And that's how the Black Death ended up in Italy.

And from there, it went to the rest of Europe.

That's the story that was prevalent.

Fleas in particular, they will leave the body when it's cold.

So if there's fleas in the clothing, then these are recently dead people.

So are you going to take someone, you know, they died, all right, stick them in the catapult.

He never went to Caffa, and we know that because his job was as a notary.

So he wrote legal documents.

He was a lawyer, but he was doing part of the lawyer's job that is writing documents.

He wasn't making arguments in court.

So because he was writing all these documents, every document has a date on it, right?

And a place.