MAD-4A wrote:So now you're rewriting the entire history of germ science and claiming that germs were discovered a century earlier? Those people did not know what a germ was period. Yes, there were some Scientist and Doctors who had theories about germs, and MANY more who rejected the idea! There is NO WAY some military officer way out in some frontier outpost on a (then) barbarian continent had ANY idea there even was a word, 'germ'.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o ... al_warfare
The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic.
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In 1346, during the siege of Kafa (now Feodossia, Crimea) the attacking Tartar Forces which were subjugated by the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan, used the bodies of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde who had died of plague, as weapons.
It´s completely irrelevant whether they could correctly explain what germs were, when they knew perfectly well how it could be exploited for warfare and massmurder.
Because it had been used that way for thousands of years already. That we KNOW about.