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The disease spread due to changes in lifestyle – people were moving from country villages to more highly populated towns. It was first spread in Asia and followed the Trade Routes to different places after. The more use of trade routes ensured that the disease spread throughout the world. It was not just Asia that was affected; it was also Europe and Africa that were devastated by the disease. China’s population dropped from 125million to 90 million during just the middle half of the 14th centur
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Crimea, is a peninsula of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupying most of the peninsula. It was where the black plague started again
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The Plague moved from Crimea to Alexandria in Autumn of 1347. Within 6 months of the initial outbreak, the death toll reached to 1,000 person per day.
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The first appearance of the plague in Europe was at Messina, Sicily in October of 1347. It arrived on trading shops came from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and through the Mediterranean. This was a standard trade route that brought European customers such items as silks and porcelain, which were carried overland to the Black Sea from as far away as China.
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During this time period, about 30-40% of England's population was killed by the bubonic plague, which is an estimated 5-6 million people.
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Sicily was filled with the horrible disease, but the trading ships brought the plague to other areas around the Mediterranean, infecting the neighboring islands of Corsica and Sardinia by November
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The plague traveled from Sarai to the Genoese trading station in Tana. The Tartars besieged the city in November, but their siege cut short when the Black Death struck. But stopping the attack, they catapulted dead plague victims into the city to infect its residents.
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The inhabitants of Kaffa fall to the disease, the merchants boarded ships to sail home. When they arrived in Genoa and Venice in January of 1348, a few people were alive to tell the tale
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The South of England was infected by June of 1348 the plague came to Great Britain in 1349. The Plague reached London on 1st November 1348. In London the Black Plague killed about 35-40 % of the population. In Bristol it was told it had killed 35-45% of the population and killed 50% of the population of Winchester.
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It came to England and first began in towns and ports that joined on the seacoasts, in Dorsetshire. Then it came to Gloucester, Oxford and to London, and finally spread over England. Nearly no one survived.
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The Black Death reached Paris in 1348 and a city that has about 200,000 people living there. Reaching the months of November and December, Paris was losing about 800 people per day.
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The Black Death reached England in 1348. Bristol was known as an important European port and city during that time. It is believed that Bristol was the first place the Black Death reach England. It reached England during summer months between June and August. It reached London by 1st November 1348. London was a crowded city with population around 70,000. The River Thames later brought more ships and infected London, which spread to the rest of England. Church records that the deaths in London we
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There was thought to be a cure for this plague which was a gold and silver pomander filled with sweet-smelling petals and herbs. People thought the smell was supposed make the air fresh and shoo the fleas away. But however it didn’t work, the person who thought of the idea and who used the idea caught the Plague and died.
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In all cases, the Plague just burned itself out, meaning it ran out of people to infect and stopped.
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There were only three types of people involved in a Bubonic plague pandemic: those who fled and isolated themselves successfully and never got it; those who got it and survived because of strong immune systems and better nutrition and care; and those who died from it.
