WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353.

Detailed explanation-2: -The medieval Silk Road brought a wealth of goods, spices, and new ideas from China and Central Asia to Europe. 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-3: -The bubonic plague-named the Black Death by later historians-was caused by the yersinia pestis bacteria, which lived in rodent populations and was spread by fleas that had bitten infected animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Detailed explanation-5: -The medieval equivalent of a nuclear holocaust, the bubonic plague-or “Black Death”-killed as many as one-third of Europe’s people in three long years (1347–1350). The disease spread quickly, killed horribly, and then moved on, leaving whole cities devastated in its wake.