The Black Death Storyboard
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- The plague began in China between the 1320s and 1330s. Traders brought it westward along the Silk Road. It infected Europeans as a result of the Mongol siege.
- The Mongols used 'germ warfare', defeating the Genoese by catapulting the bodies of plague-infected soldiers over city walls. Genoan traders brought the plague with them.
- The French, unaware of the danger, allowed the ships to berth at the Marseilles. Ove the next 4 years, the plague spread inland throughout most towns, cities and villages of western Europe.
- The Tartars died as soon as the signs of the disease appeared on their bodies. They ordered corpses to be placed in catapults and lobbed into the city.
- The rotting corpses tainted the air and poisoned the water supply.
- This continued through the bitter events of 1346-1348 AD. Almost all of the East had been affected and among those who escaped, were a few sailors with the poisonous disease.
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