The novel The Years of Rice and Salt covered this, in which the black death killed off 90% of Europe. Turns out the Chinese and Islamic empires were just as colonial, and even more brutal to the natives. War, corruption, slavery, they all were still pracriced.
The novel The Years of Rice and Salt covered this, in which the black death killed off 90% of Europe. Turns out the Chinese and Islamic empires were just as colonial, and even more brutal to the natives. War, corruption, slavery, they all were still pracriced.