10 Diseases That Quietly Ended the World's Greatest Dynasties

10 Diseases That Quietly Ended the World's Greatest Dynasties In eighteen seventeen, a disease that had spent centuries contained within the Ganges Delta suddenly learned how to travel. It moved with British supply lines across India, killing more colonial soldiers in a single campaign season than all combat casualties combined. It had no army, no general, no siege equipment. It had contaminated water and the infrastructure of empire, and that was enough.