The+Black+Death+-+Causes+and+Spread

= **The Cause and Spread of the Black Death ** =

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====A bacterium, //Yersinia pestis// is Gram-negative bacteria that were found in certain parts of the world mostly in Africa, Asia and South America during the middle ages. During early 1330s, a bubonic plague, the Black Death, appeared in China. The bacterium was known to cause plague that mainly affected rodents such as rats. As fleas transmitted the disease to people, it killed almost millions of people in China. The infected fleas contaminated human, and so on. When the mutated plague became airborne which it floated in the air, it spread more widely and rapidly.====

HOW DID IT SPREAD
====The Black Death spread by trading, war, and other relationship with central Asia. The disease took the Silk Road trade route from China. This terrible plague started in Europe in 1328 and lasted until 1351 almost 20 years although it spread for the next sixty years. The first spread of plague swept across England in 1348. It spread from Constantinople along the trade routes. The disease was spread by following all of the Trade Route to every country. Flees that lived on rats made to spread it so rapidly. The rats bite humans and they get bacteria in their bodies. The stomachs of the fleas were infected with bacteria known as Y. Petis. Many poor people lived in the stone house. They lived with other people in same house. Their living conditions were so bad and dirty. The serfs and peasants lived in the small town and their house didn’t have window. The roof that was made of mud made good place to live for rats. The dirty living condition totally made good condition to spread the disease faster. Fleas can belong to each person and it caused spread of the disease. Because of this disease, many people couldn’t able to grow crops or make food for them. Also, the people’s cats and dogs get infected by the fleas. People could get infected by touching their pet. They lived very close to each other and they were lacked of knowledge about the disease. Later on, many people died because of the air. The dead bodies made bad smell that can make other people infected in this disease. ====



WHERE DID IT SPREAD
====The origin of the Black Death was the Gobi Desert in the late 1320. Then the plague spread in every direction. The disease went Asia to the west and approached Europe. It moved along the trans-Saharan caravan route toward the West. By 1345, the Black Death was on the lower Volga River which flows through central Russia and is the largest river in Europe. In 1346, the plague reached the Caucasus Mountains and the Crimea. By 1347, it was in Constantinople which was the capital of the Eastern European Empire. In the autumn of 1347, it hit Alexandria and killed thousand people a day. The disease travelled the Mediterranean Sea by ship and soon hit Sicily. It hit Cyprus in summer and Italy in winter of the year. Moving along the Rhine trade route, the plague reached Marseilles, Paris, and England in 1348. The plague killed 1.5 million people out of the total population of 4 million in England. The Black Death quickly reached those areas, but it took about three years from the beginning to reach eastern European countries and Russia. Because the disease exactly followed the European trade routes, it started from the Gobi Desert, the Near East, the Western Mediterranean, north Europe, and finally back into Russia. ==== 

Early 1347 – The Black Death first reached in the Europe.
====1347 – The beginning of Black Death (1347-1351) when the Economic Depression stared in the Western Europe. The Black Death produced a major impact on social and economic condition, ==== ====Spring 1348 – The Massacres of Jews began. During the Black Death, people believed that the Black Death was a punishment from God and they also believed that foreigners or those who followed a different religion had poisoned the wells, which means the cause of Black Death. Therefore, Many European people hated Jews and many European countries began to massacre Jews. ====

January 1349 - The entire Jewish community in Basel, Switzerland was burned.
====August 1349 – The biggest Jewish community in Mainz protected themselves from mob and killed 200 Christians. Mob came to revenge and killed 6,000 Jews in Mainz, Germany. ====

1351 – The end of Black Death (1347-1351). It doesn’t mean that the Black Death was completely done in Europe.
====1356 – The war between England and France, known as Hundred years’ war, became weaken because of the Black Death in both England and France. ====

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