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Anybody could get the black plague. It was more prominent in London, however there were a few cases reported in China and the East in the 1330's. It reached Europe at about 1347 when a trading ship (the closest you can get to a real ghost ship) arrived in the Italian port of Messina with most of their crew already dead or dying. The plague hit England by 1348 and Russia and Scandinavia by 1351.
It spread quickly to all people. The hardest hit people were the clergy. This was to be expected since the clergy were called to the bed sides of the dead and dying.
A disgusting fact...in 1346 Tarters who had besieged the Christian-held city of Caffa in the Crimea loaded their catapults with the bodies of plague victims and threw them into the city!! Needless to say, the Italian merchants inside Caffa abandoned the city and fled...unfortunately on rat-infested ships to no where other than Europe.
(Information received by: The Mental Floss History of the World by Erik Sass and Steve Wiegand. Published by Mental Floss LCC. in 2008)
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What Was another name for bubonic plague?
Another name for the plague is the black death
What did they call the black plague back then?
Black plague
What diseases did you get if you got the black plague?
the black plague
Is black plague infectious?
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
What specific disease was the plague in 1593-1594?
That fateful year saw the world's population enduring what is believed to be a recurrence of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or the Black Plague. It is further widely believed that the Black Death was responsible for the deaths of 38,000 Londoners that year.
What is the real common name for plague?
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
What was the plague of medieval times?
The black plague
What plague did Giogione die of?
The black plague. The plague was transferred by rats.
What was the dangers in the medieval times?
It is the Black Death. (Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague)
Key words for the black death?
Plague, Yersinia pestis, bubonic plague, black plague, black death, fleas, rats, middle ages.
What is a sentence for black plague?
The black plague claimed millions of lives.We believe the black plague was caused by the fleas that rats carried, aided by poor sanitation.
Was the black death the same as the plague?
yes black death and the plague are the same things
