on medieval Europe. While being one of the worst and deadliest diseases in the history of

the world, it indirectly helped Europe break grounds for some of the basic necessities for

The Black Death erupted in the Gobi Desert in the late 1320s, but one really

knows why. The plague bacillus was alive and active long before that; as Europe itself

had suffered an epidemic in the 6th century. But the disease had lain relatively dormant in

the succeeding centuries. It is believed that the climate of Earth began to cool in the 14th

century, and perhaps this so-called little Ice Age had something to do with it becoming

more active than normal (Knox 2). Whatever the reason, we know that the outbreak

began there and spread outward. While it did go west, it

well. Already in 1347, the plague had hit Sicily. By winter the plague had reached

rat into the human, infecting the human. The rat dies. The human dies. The flea's life is not

the spring of 1348. By September of 1348 the Bubonic Plague had worked its way into

symptoms of fever and aches, to final expiration, lasts only three or four days. The

Cairo, Egypt, the count was seven times that. The disease traveled by ship as readily as by

mainland Italy. By January of 1348, the plague was in Marseilles, and it reached Paris in

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