I think you're forgetting the time frame of the discussion here. We're talking about the plague which happened in the late middle-ages. China was essentially the central power of Asia back then.
Right??? I look at European societies in the 1500-1600s and it wasn't much better than what we have today. It was the same kind of shit with rich people ruling over everything.
Meanwhile most of the native peoples here were free, as in REALLY free.
But I don't know about Central and South American societies though. They must have had some form of society where the richer people had more control. We seem to evolve that way.
East Asia wasn't struck by the plague as far as I know. It was contained to Europe, North Africa and West Asia.
EDIT: Sorry. To clarify what I mean is that maybe the had means to quarantine people and stop the spread of infections diseases. Maybe their hygiene was much better too. A lot of it was due to poor Hygiene. But yeah, maybe a pandemic could have happened like anywhere else I suppose, sooner or later.
Really? What the fuck?