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The plague was spread by fleas on rats. Rats boarded trade ships in the East and jumped off at various harbors around Europe, spreading the plague wherever they landed.

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What is the role of trade in transmitting the black plague?

The Black Death was carried by rats and mice along the oriental trade route. After hitting the Silk Road trade route, it rapidly spread throughout Europe after hitting Arabia, Northern Africa and Asian locations. By its end in 1351, half of Europe's population had been wiped out.


What role did the rats play in spreading the plague?

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How might the plague have helped make Byzantium more vulnerable to foreign attack?

Black Death Plague was result of trade. So it destroyed trade, thus city.


What was the affect of plague?

Economical collapse and trade halt. These were the effects of the Black Death.


What was a affect of the plague?

Economical collapse and trade halt. These were the effects of the Black Death.


What was true about the bubonic plague in Europe Asia and Africa?

It followed trade routes.


The number of deaths from the plague resulted in in Europe?

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The number of deaths from the plague resulted in in Europe.?

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role of geography on trade?

Where to trade to in the world.


How did the plague travel from Sicily to the European main land?

the Black Death Plague traveled via trade routes. Mainly due to Mongol armies attacking Europe.


Why did the black rats start the great plague?

The rats carried fleas that actually caused the plague. The rats were carried throughout Europe on ships carrying trade goods.


What is Canada's role?

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