The Decline Of The Plague - 1947 Words

In 14th century Europe during its medieval period there was a pandemic that killed many people all over Europe and Asia called the Black Death. This disease spread fast with the increasing trade between all the people in Europe through its complex system of trade routes. At this time everybody was unsure on where the plague came from. The plague was affecting both the packed urban areas and the rural areas of Europe as well. Without knowledge of sanitation and medicine this spread rapidly and many people were affected by the plague. The period before the plague was very important to medieval Europe. It was times of prosper for the majority of Europe. There was an increase in trade and agriculture and communication with the inhabitants.†¦show more content†¦Where food was not being produced to due to cold to supply Europe with food (Cole and Symes 355). Modern scholars and historians believed that the plague began in china, and then spread to the Crimean Where the Chinese’s traders exchange goods and silk with European merchants. At the same time European ships where in the dock of caffa when the Mongolian army introduce the plague when they raided the port city. Which were trekking across Europe taking advantage of the weak East Asians and Europeans cities. The bubonic plague called the Black Death began in the borderland region between India, China and Burma in the Himalayan foothills. It began to appear in China about 1330 CE and reached the Crimeas port of Caffa in 1346 CE . then traveling fro m the flea infested rats on the merchant vassals. It spread From the Crimea port of Caffa on the black sea, the plague travelled to Constantinople and Sicily in the year 1347 CE, Egypt and Syria in 1348 CE, and spread to the rest of Europe the following years (Pamuk 293). The bacteria Yersinia pestis is present in infected rats and other rodents and is transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea. However the flea that is infected by the plague regurgitates the bacteria into human’s blood stream. When the human is infected the bacteria is carried by the lymphatic system to the lymph node closest to the bit. Those affected are marked by enlarged lymph glands and