![]() This new explanation better explains the bacteria’s very rapid movement along trade routes throughout Eurasia and into sub-Saharan Africa.Īt the time, people thought that the plague came into Mediterranean ports by ship. However, evidence now suggests that it must have been transmitted first by direct human contact with rodents and then via human fleas and head lice. Traditionally, historians have argued that the transmission of the plague involved movement of plague-infected fleas from wild rodents to the household black rat. When it was over, the European population was cut by a third to a half, and China and India suffered death on a similar scale. Hitting the Middle East and Europe between 13, the Black Death had aftershocks still felt into the early 1700s. It moved from Central Asia to China in the early 1200s and reached the Black Sea in the late 1340s. ![]() ![]() Spread of the plague in western Eurasia, 1346-1353Īt about the same time, it began to spread globally. ![]()
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