The Black Plague was a great European disaster that had many affects
of the people living at that time. Though there may be controversy today over
its precise significance, no one would to-day deny that the black plague was
of the greatest economic and social importance as well as hideously dramatic
in its progress. (form the book "The Black Death" by Phillip Ziegler)
In the early 1330's the black plague started to form and the
first place it struck was in China. The bubonic plague was basically fleas on
rodents such as rats but, fleas can also transmit the disease to people as well
as rats but mainly rats that the fleas transmitted this horrible plague into.
The spread of the plague started in China very fast since that it was the most
over populated country the plague naturally spread very quickly. Since China
was the one of the busiest of the worlds trading nations, it was only a matter
of time before the plague was spread into western Asia and Europe. In
October of 1347, several Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the
Black Sea, one of the key links of trading was with China. Inside the ship
there was already people suffering from the deadly virus. Soon when the ship
arrives at there location, which is Sicily in Italy. Only within a number of days
the disease spread to city and to the countryside. An eyewitness tells what
happened and this is what he said: Realizing what a deadly disaster had come
to them, the people quickly drove the Italians from their city. But the disease
remained, and soon death was everywhere. fathers abandoned their sick sons.
Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the dying. Friars and nuns
were left to care for the sick, and monasteries and convents were soon
deserted, as they were stricken, too. Bodies were left in empty houses, and
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