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The Chronicle of Seert credits this event for inspiring the Rogationtide Fast of Nineveh, which persisted in phases named for Kavad II Sheroe and Emmaus. Peter Sarris traced emphyteutic church rents to this event during a flurry of laws, like the anti-sodomy edict of Novel 141, that were issued after John of Ephesus compared it to God’s winepress. Gregory of Tours blamed this event for Pelagius II’s replacement by Pope Gregory I. The “dust-veil event” preceded this event, which delayed Abraha’s repairs of the Ma’rib Dam. Evagrius Scholasticus (*) dated this event to two years after the Sack of Antioch began the Lazic (10[1])War. This event (10[1])of the Late Antique Little Ice Age was traced to the Tiānshān’s (-5[1])enzootics (10[1])in 2013, (10[3])when paleogenetics matched its (10[1])causative agent (10[1])to the (10[1])account of Procopius. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])what recurring disaster from 541 to 750 CE afflicted millions with Y. pestis, (10[1])including a Byzantine emperor? ■END■

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