of the people living at that time. Though there may be controversy today over

its precise significance, no one would to-day deny that the black plague was

of the greatest economic and social importance as well as hideously dramatic

in its progress. (form the book "The Black Death" by Phillip Ziegler)

In the early 1330's the black plague started to form and the

first place it struck was in China. The bubonic plague was basically fleas on

rodents such as rats but, fleas can also transmit the disease to people as well

as rats but mainly rats that the fleas transmitted this horrible plague into.

The spread of the plague started in China very fast since that it was the most

over populated country the plague naturally spread very quickly. Since China

was the one of the busiest of the worlds trading nations, it was only a matter

of time before the plague was spread into western Asia and Europe. In

October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the

Black Sea, one of the key links of trading was with China. Inside the ship

to them, the people quickly drove the Italians from their city. But the disease

Christendom had prayed for devoutly for deliverance from the plague. Why

many died that there was serious labor shortages all over Europe. This led

arrives at there location, which is Sicily in Italy. Only within a number of days

victims of the Black Death often "ate lunch with their friends and ate dinner

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