HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Many goods were being traded and shipped from Africa.
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More goods were being traded and shipped from East Asia.
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Roman roads were better than ever before.
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Vikings brought it with them when they conquered parts of Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1346, the trade also likely carried the deadly bubonic plague that killed as many as half of all Europeans within 7 years, in what is known as the Black Death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poor sanitation in cities created breeding grounds for rats that carried the disease. There were recurrences of the plague in 1361–63, 1369–71, 1374–75, 1390, and 1400. Death rates from the Black Death varied from place to place. The disease spread more quickly in populated towns than in the countryside.
Detailed explanation-3: -Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague. Plague is infamous for killing millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages.
Detailed explanation-4: -The population in England in 1400 was perhaps half what it had been 100 years earlier; in that country alone, the Black Death certainly caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1, 000 villages. A rough estimate is that 25 million people in Europe died from plague during the Black Death.
Detailed explanation-5: -Historically, plague was responsible for widespread pandemics with high mortality. It was known as the “Black Death” during the fourteenth century, causing more than 50 million deaths in Europe.