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What did people think caused the Black Death?
Some believed it was a punishment from God, some believed that foreigners or those who followed a different religion had poisoned the wells, some thought that bad air was responsible, some thought the position of the planets had caused the plague.
How did the Black Death spread according to historians?
The plague is thought to have originated in Asia over 2,000 years ago and was likely spread by trading ships, though recent research has indicated the pathogen responsible for the Black Death may have existed in Europe as early as 3000 B.C.
Where do historians think that the Black Death started?
Many historians think the plague originated in China. Armies attacking Caffa spread the plague into the town by Armies attacking Caffa spread the plague by catapulting plague corpses into the town.
How did the Black Death spread to Europe?
Rats carried the Black Death across Asia and Europe – helped by man’s trading routes. © The plague bacteria is thought to have spread from the arid plains of central Asia. The plague generally left untouched the indigenous nomad population, because rat fleas do not like the smell of horses, with which the nomads lived in close proximity.
When did the Black Death start in London?
Green was in London in 2012 just as findings on the London plague cemetery came out confirming without a doubt both the identity of the bacterium and the specific genetic lineage of the plague that hit London in June 1348.
What happens to the victims of the Black Death?
The victim is wracked by fever and starts coughing up blood, which contains plague bacteria and makes transmission airborne. Neurological difficulties and coma follow infection, and death is 95-100% certain within three days.
What causes the skin to turn black in the Black Death?
A hand showing how acral gangrene of the fingers due to bubonic plague causes the skin and flesh to die and turn black. An inguinal bubo on the upper thigh of a person infected with bubonic plague. Swollen lymph nodes (buboes) often occur in the neck, armpit and groin (inguinal) regions of plague victims.