SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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It spread on flies on fruits and vegetables that were traded
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It spread on mosquitos in water bottles
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It spread on rats traveling on caravan routes and Mediterranean trading ships
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It was passed from trader to trader
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Detailed explanation-1: -The disease spread through flea bites. But the fleas hitched a ride out of Central Asia on the backs of both traders and camels traveling with trade caravans. From these hosts, the fleas spread to rodents traveling with the caravans and to rats that infested trading ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thirteen of these cities were key trade nodes that linked trade routes together. These cities were geographically dispersed and spread in seven countries. As stated by Vogler et al.31, maritime ports were common plague outbreak centers when “plague ships” introduced infected rodent hosts and flea vectors to the cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rats, fleas, and people spread the plague along trade routes. In five years the bubonic plague killed a quarter of the people in Europe.