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Ready for a wild history ride? In this episode of Sho Wasaid, we dive into the mysterious disappearance of a medieval German city and the epic epidemics that might have caused it! From ancient plagues to modern pandemics, this story has it all. Subscribe for more fascinating tales and drop a comment about what blew your mind most! #history #epidemics #mystery #plague #subscribe

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0:00 - Show Introduction and Date
0:17 - Previous Discussion on Virus and Pandemic
0:36 - Discovery of Ancient German City
1:37 - Voluntary City Abandonment and Causes
3:25 - Climate Change, Epidemics, and City Exodus
4:38 - Historical Epidemics and Repeating Patterns
5:27 - Plagues in Medieval Germany
7:00 - Modern Parallels and Closing Remarks

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Transcript
00:00Welcome to a new episode of your show, Shulwaseyad. Today is the second day, 7-9-20-26, 7-September
00:09-26, 2026, and 24th of Rabbi Alawad.
00:14Do you want me to remind you? God willing, I'll remind you and put it up for you.
00:18A screenshot from the special episode I made for members only about a dangerous virus that started spreading in the
00:24world,
00:24and we talked about it in the members episode, that if people around the world don't pay attention and take
00:31precautions,
00:31we might be facing a pandemic. I don't want to go into more detail than that for a reason.
00:37This is what German scientists in Germany are saying, and those who follow me know this.
00:44You might find it strange. They discovered the remains of an ancient city, a whole city that once existed and
00:51no longer does.
00:52The famous German scientists discovered it. These German excavation experts are very famous for excavation,
01:00so the important thing is that they managed to discover a city or settlement called Köln, Kölnigen.
01:06This has existed since the Middle Ages. They discovered it dates back to the Middle Ages.
01:12And I think it's in the German state of Saxony. I don't know if anyone watching us is from the
01:18German state of Saxony.
01:19Write it in the comments. The important thing is, when they actually discovered it, while they were digging,
01:27they found the whole city. But while they were searching, they couldn't find any evidence that this city was destroyed.
01:36I mean, there wasn't a devastating earthquake that made the people leave the city.
01:41Usually, when something like that happens, like the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey on February 2020-23,
01:49an entire city, the residents of an entire city were evacuated, and the residents of other cities were also evacuated.
01:55At that time, the Turkish government provided them with it, and then they rebuilt the entire city,
02:01and people returned to live in new houses.
02:03The important thing is, that the residents of this city, which was not destroyed, left it voluntarily.
02:10And that's not just according to me, but according to German scientists.
02:14The German scientists discovered that the residents of this city left it in an orderly way.
02:21That means there was something organized, something that required these people to leave in an orderly way,
02:27and they left everything behind and walked away.
02:32The reasons are unknown.
02:33But as soon as I heard that it was the Middle Ages, I mean the Middle Ages,
02:40we're talking about between the 14th and 15th centuries.
02:44Always.
02:46Residence of any city living in such an orderly way is due to several reasons.
02:52It's either climate changes, and the lack of resources that comes with these climate changes.
02:59The same thing that's happening today in the current century, in the year 2026 and the year 2027.
03:06Serious changes in the climate will lead to a lack of resources.
03:11We hope we don't reach the point where the residents of our cities have to leave.
03:15Madonna pointed this out in special episodes for members.
03:18If you're not subscribed to the channel membership, subscribe.
03:22I'll leave you the link to join the channel membership in the first comment.
03:25So always, changes in the climate lead to a lack of resources.
03:30Wars lead to a lack of resources.
03:32So people leave their cities and go to other places to be able to survive.
03:40The second main reason that causes people to leave places is when an epidemic spreads in an area.
03:49That's it, the epidemic has struck the city, so here the scholars would have had no doubt.
03:56I want to be fair to the scholars and tell them that the reason these people left was an epidemic.
04:02But that's definitely not the case, because they left in an organized way.
04:07That means someone was organizing things.
04:09The city's notables were organizing, and they all left because there was no solution.
04:13At first, they used to start by isolating themselves, isolating each other.
04:17They would keep the sick people together in a certain place, and the healthy people in another place.
04:24And then they all started leaving together because they were convinced when the epidemic spreads in a city, it will
04:31wipe everyone out.
04:32So the best solution is always to leave everything and walk away.
04:37That's how it is.
04:38They used to say the epidemic has struck.
04:41The epidemic has struck the city, which means it will leave nothing and no one behind.
04:46Okay?
04:47With a simple review of history, look at the epidemics.
04:51Epidemics repeat themselves over time.
04:53An epidemic comes upon humanity and claims hundreds of thousands of lives.
05:00Or with today's scientific advances, they say it claims tens of thousands of lives, or millions of lives every so
05:08often.
05:09It hits the world, regardless of whether this epidemic is man-made, intentional, or natural.
05:17Is it random or organized?
05:19I don't want to get into it, even though I talked about this topic in special episodes about the earth,
05:23but I don't want to talk about it here.
05:27Hey, when I go back with you to the 14th and 15th centuries in Germany, I think it existed.
05:35Correct me if I'm wrong.
05:36If I'm wrong, but according to my memory, at that time, the empire existed.
05:43The Holy Roman Empire existed in Germany at that time.
05:48Okay.
05:49What does history tell us about this empire, and specifically about Germany?
05:54Does it tell me there was a plague that spread at that time?
05:59Well, here the Black Death spread in the 14th and 15th centuries.
06:04And every 15 years or so, it would come, take a few thousand lives, and then end.
06:10Every 10 or 15 years, the plague would keep coming like that, take a few thousand lives, and move on,
06:17take a few thousand, and move on.
06:19The Black Death would come.
06:20And it didn't just devastate the Holy Roman Empire.
06:24It struck many countries around the world at that time.
06:27It was transmitted, you know, through bacteria that infect rodents, and the rodents carry this bacteria and then attack and
06:37infect humans with it.
06:38And this bacteria attacks the lymph nodes in humans.
06:43So, he becomes swollen, and his body stays like that, with swellings appearing on his body, and then it ends
06:50in death.
06:51The plague spared no one and destroyed everything.
06:55And according to history, according to the historians, it spread widely at that time.
07:00They say that when this plague spreads in a city, it kills 50% of the population.
07:06Before they could save themselves and flee the city, when the plague enters 50%,
07:10if the population was 100,000, 50,000 get infected, and they run away, they flee, because that's it.
07:18The plague has hit this city.
07:20So, most likely, by the way, if they look into it, it's not just the city.
07:24I mean, it's just that its residents left.
07:26They'll find many cities and many villages whose residents left because of the spread of epidemics.
07:32Black plague, the Black Death, was also widespread.
07:35It was devastating during that period.
07:37There was no medicine for it, and typhoid spread very widely.
07:43And among the well-known diseases and epidemics are leprosy, leprosy, and typhoid, and the Black Death.
07:50But the Black Death is the most significant.
07:56It was a disease that used to cause deaths.
07:59Today, typhoid and leprosy can be treated.
08:02Thank God.
08:02Science has developed, and now they are treated with antibiotics.
08:06Sorry, will we see?
08:09In the coming period, will residents be forced to leave their city?
08:14Will we see epidemics sweeping through certain places,
08:18and people try to escape from their cities and find everything closed?
08:22Even the airports are closed.
08:24Stay tuned for our episodes, especially for very dangerous situations.
08:27Here, it's hard for me to manage.
08:29I'm with you, Ahmad Ahmad, the drama.
08:31And I said, what show is this?
08:33Take care.
08:33Take care.
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