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The plague
began in Asia. Traveling trade routes, it infected
parts of Asia, the Muslim world, and Europe. In
1347, a fleet of Genoese merchant ships arrived in
Sicily carrying bubonic plague, also known as the
Black Death. It got the name because of the purplish
or blackish spots it produced on the skin. The disease
swept through Italy. From there it followed
trade routes to Spain, France, Germany, England,
and other parts of Europe and North Africa.
Black rats carried fleas that were infested -
It caused a purplis/ black disease that no boody wanted to cure. fathers and mothers wouldn't even nurse their own children, The bubonic plague, or Black Death, was a killer disease that swept repeatedly
through many areas of the world. It wiped out two-thirds of the population in some
areas of China, destroyed populations of Muslim towns in Southwest Asia, and then
decimated one-third of the European population -
Socially-Jews were blamed
economically- wiped out two-thirds of the population in some
areas of China, destroyed populations of Muslim towns in Southwest Asia, and then decimated one-third of the European population. trade sropped. prices rose.
politically- The serfs left the manor in search of
better wages. Nobles fiercely resisted peasant
demands for higher wages, causing
peasant revolts in England, France, Italy,
and BelgiumNobles fiercely resisted peasant
demands for higher wages,