Black Death

By Fletcher Adams
  • 1320

    Gobi Desert

    Bubonic plague broke out in China's Gobi desert.
    The silk road made the plague get worst because it started in gobi desert.
    Started from fleas and rats.
  • 1338

    Lake Issyk Kul

    Only stayed here for 2 years.
    barely anyone lived there.
    nearly everyone died though.
  • 1345

    Lower Volga River

    silk road brought the black death here.
    farmers worked there.
    made heaps more food.
  • 1346

    Crimera and Caucasus

    biological warfare attack.
    people still get in there.
  • 1347

    Messina Sicily

    A ship with rats invaded and had the plague.
    the country suffered the most.
  • 1347

    Constantinople

    10000 deaths a day.
    300,000 deaths overall.
  • 1347

    Italy and Greece

    italy suffered the most.
    first Europe countries to get the plague.
  • 1347

    Alexandria

    autumn it occurred by trades.
    200 deaths per day.
  • 1347

    Egypt

    Egypt was affected 58 times between 1347 and 1517.
    200,000 people.
  • 1348

    Genoa, Venice

    According to the chronicle, the plague didn't migrate from the South across the Italian Peninsula but was taken directly to Genova and Venice by Genoese plague ships.
  • 1348

    Britain and Ireland

    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the second pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria.
  • 1349

    Mecca

    in 1349, the holy city of Mecca was hit by the plague, likely brought in by infected pilgrims on the hajj
  • 1349

    Northern Europe

    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. One of the most fatal pandemics in human history, as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population.
  • 1351

    Yemen

    In 1351, 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.
  • 1353

    Moscow

    To this end some remarks on the effects of the Black Death upon Russian towns in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are presented.