The Black Death: How the Plague Remade Europe

Culture 1347 AD Medieval 🇫🇷 France 817 views

Between 1347 and 1351, the bubonic plague killed between one third and one half of Europe's entire population, destroying the old social order and inadvertently paving the way for a new world.

Arrival from the EastThe plague arrived in Europe via the Black Sea in 1347, carried on Genoese trading ships from Caffa in Crimea, where the Mongol army had reportedly catapulted plague-infected corpses over the walls during a siege. Rats carrying infected fleas spread the disease from the ships in...

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