Black Death

Introduction
The Black Death or Great Plague of 1347-1351 was not only a tragedy but also a crisis. The towns were shattered the cities were well under populated, nothing was good to eat, nowhere was good to walk it was all-unsafe. No one knew what caused this horrible disease so they had to be locked up in there houses all the time so they were as sanitary as they could get. There is a lot of things to know about this horrible disease and a lot of facts to be learned.

How It All Got Started
In 1347 a Tartar army set up a trading port or trading post in Caffa. Caffa is by the Black Sea. A few soldiers didn’t want to help the king out at this trading site because a plague was forming and people were becoming somewhat ill. After a few days of hard labor and staying away from the sickness a few soldiers decided they would gather all there belongings and head back to Southern Italy. As they gathered their things they gathered all the people too and they left on the ship le...