South Asia Was Less Severely Affected by the Black Death

Multiple Choice

South Asia was less severely affected by the Black Death than were settlements along the Silk Road and Mediterranean Sea because

A) South Asian societies had escaped the Mongol conquest and were not directly linked to Mongol-controlled trade routes.
B) South Asians had a natural immunity to the microbes that caused the plague.
C) no rats live in South Asia because the climate does not support them.
D) most people in South Asia are not pastoralists, but live in settled agricultural villages.