The Black Death - Trade
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- CHINA 1320s (start of the BLACK DEATH)
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- The plague arrived through trade
- 1347, Mongol Siege of the Black Sea port of Caffa
- Dead infected bodies of soldiers!
- Mongols used 'Germ warfare' and defeated Genoese
- Over 4 years, it spread inland throughout western Europe
- France was unaware of the plague and allowed ships
- Tartars died as soon as symptoms appeared and corpses were ordered to be put in catapults
- Rotting corpses poisoned water supply as well
- Those who have escaped were sailors who had been infected with the poisonous disease
- 1346-1348 Majority of East infected
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