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How did the Black Death start?

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Haylie Corkery

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The Black Death was a massive plague, named: The Bubonic Plague; which spread through Britain and the rest of Europe in the mid 14th century, killing nearly half of the population; including farm animals, like: sheep, cows and chickens.

From the start to the end of the Black Death, the population decreased by around 1.8 million people. Due to minimal pay, lack of hygiene and nutrition, peasants especially had a tough time defending against the spread of the infectious disease.

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Assuming that you mean the Black Death, it started with trade flourishing in Asia, but sanitation was not very important then so peasants lived in filth with the rats. But rats were not the cause for the plague... But the fleas on the rats. In the fleas' bite transmitted the infection from one host to another... People back then had NO IDEA what hit them.

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When did the black death start in Europe?

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What place in England did the Black death start?

The Black Death did not start in England. It started in either southwest Asia or a port in Genoa, Italy.


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The Black Death first struck Europe in 1347. It had been in Asia before that, but there is no record of exactly when or where it first struck.


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