Spread of the black death

By gokuball32
  • 1338

    Mecca

    The black death was probably brought in by pilgrims during the Hajj celebration.
  • 1345

    lower volga river

  • 1346

    Gobi Desert

    in the late 1320s or early 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China's Gobi desert
  • 1347

    Britain and ireland

  • 1347

    Egypt

    The Black Death in Cairo resulted in the death of 200,000 people, which were a third of the population of the city
  • 1347

    Alexandria

    a ship carrying the plague came to Alexandria in Egypt.
  • 1347

    Gennoa, venice

    Spread by infected galleys coming from Kaffa (Crimea), the Black Death reached Genoa, as it now seems, in the late summer of 1347
  • 1348

    Northen Europe

    In the Northen part of Europe, it is thought that around 50 million people died as a result of the Black Death over the course of three or four years. The population was reduced from some 80 million to 30 million
  • 1348

    Lake issyk Kul

    plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black Sea.
  • 1349

    Crimea and Caucasus

    the Black Death is widely believed to have reached Europe from the Crimea as the result of a biological warfare attack.
  • 1349

    messina, sicily

    The second pandemic or Black Death arrived in Messina in Sicily, probably from Central Asia via Genoese ships carrying flea-laden rats in October 1347, which initiated a wave of plague infections that rapidly spread across most of Europe like a relentless wildfire.
  • 1351

    Yemen

    Yemen experienced an outbreak of the plague. This coincided with the return of King Mujahid of Yemen from imprisonment in Cairo. His party may have brought the disease with them from Egypt.
  • 1351

    constantinople

    It was in Constantinople, where Asia meets Europe, that the bubonic plague first docked
  • 1353

    Moscow

    As it spread to western Europe, the disease also entered the region from southern Russia.