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The first recorded appearance of the plague in Europe was at Messina, Sicily in October of 1347. It arrived with trading ships that likely came from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and through the Mediterranean. This was a standard trade route that brought to Europeans goods which were carried overland to the Black Sea from as far away as China.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoINFECTED RODENTS ON SHIPS TO EUROPE Rats coming in off ships from the Mediterranean Sea to europe! Fleas would bite the rats. Then they would become infected! We all know that rats and fleas bite people so that is how it was caught.
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∙ 12y agoWell....the black death was caused by rats...so whenever the sailors traveled somewhere to trade a rat would be on the boat..so when they traded with Europe one of the sailors had the black death without knowing and therefore it spread
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∙ 13y agoThe Black Death is thought to have started in China. It traveled along the Silk Road (a network of trade routes across Asia) to Crimea (Crimea is right next to Ukraine. From there is was carried by fleas, believed to be Oriental rat fleas, which lived on the back of black rats. The black rats were often found on merchant ships in the Mediterranean, and they help to spread the plague to Europe.
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∙ 10y agoThe Black Death started in China in the 1320s and spread to Europe through trading routes in 1347. It first reached the Mongol siege of the port of Caffa, and infected the Genoese merchants and sailors defending the port. The Genoese were defeated, so they continued their trade back to the port of Marseilles in France and brought the plague to other parts of Europe. The disease then rapidly spread to Western Europe in the next four years and spread to England when English soldiers returned to their country from France after the Hundred Years War in 1348.
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Where in Europe did the Black Death Affect?
The Black Plague or Death affected all of Europe in 1347 to 1351.
Who carried the black death to Europe?
No one did it was rats that carried black death (plague)
What is the importance of the Black Plague?
Black Death killed almost 75 to 200 million people worldwide. It destroyed many economies.
What caused the plague in Ancient Greece?
Black Death Plague spread from country to country. It spread across whole Europe.
Where did the black plague take place?
It was mainly found in England, China, and Europe.
What caused a dramatic decline in the population of Europe in the 1300s?
The Bubonic Plague (a.k.a The Black Plague) caused a dramatic decline in the population of Europe in the 1300s.
Where did the black plague hit after Europe?
Asia
Where was the black plague most deadly?
Europe
What is was the Black Death and how did it change Europe?
black death is Plague pandemic. It killed 75 to 200 million people. Thus it changed it.
What is the ''black plague''?
The Black Plague is a disease that spread throughout Europe and Asia. It was carried to Europe on Asian merchants' ships which had black rats which carried fleas which carried a type of bacteria. It killed about a third of the people in Europe.
How many cities were threatened by the black plague?
Europe
When was the first black plague vaccination?
Medieval Europe.
Where was the burbonic plague?
The burbonic plague aka the black death plague was carried over from the Medirerrahnean sea. To Europe
Where in Europe did the Black Death Affect?
The Black Plague or Death affected all of Europe in 1347 to 1351.
Who did the black plague mostly affect?
At the time, the Black Plague affected everyone in the world.
What epidemic attacked the people of Europe in 1347?
The epidemic that attacked the people of Europe was the Black Plague or the Black death.
What was an effect of the plague of Europe?
Black Death changed Europe. Both economically and socially.
