Map: Copy source 1 map on p 332. Explain how trade caused the spread throughout parts of the world. How important was the city of Caffa in the spread of the Black Death? Find out how the Silk Road impacted on the spread of the disease. Why did the Black Death primarily affect settled communities rather than people living in nomadic existence?
Because Genoa and Venice sent ships throughout the Mediterranean and to Western and Northern Europe and Asia which made the plague spread among those places and areas. Caffa was so important in the spread of the Black Death because most of this spread appears to have been originated in Caffa. Silk road impacted on the disease because Fur traders came across the dead animals, and then used the animals fur as clothing not knowing that it had the disease within them then they would sent them along the Silk Road to cities such as Caffa. In the early medieval era there was a period in which many nomadic groups moved through Europe and Asia, invading new land. During the middle ages most of these nomadic groups slowly settled in the land that they had conquered, establishing permanent villages and towns as the centres of agriculture activity.
The Cause: What causes the disease? Explain how people become infected. What was the most contagious for of the disease? images here would be great!
The oriental flea which bit the rat and sucked the blood out which carried the disease and then the flea's jumped onto the humans after sucking the diseased blood and then spread it onto the humans. which then spread around Europe. The Pneumonic Plague was the most contagious form of the disease becuase it infected the lungs, which would cause servere coughing, which would spray the bacteria out into the air and onto other people.