As the Italian writer Boccaccio said the victims, "ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise." That was a very realistic description of a plague that ran rampant throughout the world in the early 1300's. The Black Death, or The Bubonic Plague, killed everyone in its path. Throughout this paper I will discuss how the plague came into Europe, what the plague is, the different forms of the plague, and finally what the plague did to the economy and how it changed the World.
             The Bubonic Plague erupted in the Gobi Desert in the 1320's.Then by transport of ships it got into Italy and began to spread quickly. The plague moved from city to city by trade routes toward the West. It hit by 1347 and then by 1348 it was everywhere, this year was the worst (The Black).
             The Bubonic plague is the medical term. It is a bacillus most usually carried by rodents. Fleas infest the animal and then move freely over to a human host. The flea then regurtates the blood from the rat into the human (The Black). Then the rat dies, the human dies, and the flea goes on to live a long happy life. Some symptoms include high fevers and aching limbs. Most characteristic is the swelling of the lymph nodes. The swelling is highly visible because of the massive pertrusion and the turns a blackish color hence The Black Death. The swellings continue to expand until they burst and then the person soon dies. The whole process lasts only three to four days but the victim is in so much pain that people became terrified quickly (Black Death).
             Other than the bubonic strain there are also two other forms. The septicemia plague, and the pneumonic plague both occurred during the bubonic to worsen the strain. The septicemia attacks the blood stream and the pneumonic attacks the lungs. The pneumonic had a 100% mortality rate and was the most deadly and easily spread. This one was spread through aerosol drople...