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1320
Gobi Desert
Bubonic plague broke out in Gobi Desert in China and started to spread rapidly -
1338
Lake Issyk Kul
The plague then spread to Central Asia near Lake Issyk Kul -
1345
Lower Volga River
The plague was then spread down the Lower Volga River -
1346
Crimea and Caucasus
The plague then spread through to southern Russia -
1347
Alexandria
Another ship carried the plague over and rapidly spread -
1347
Messina, Sicily
12 ships from Genoa carried the plague to Sicily in Italy -
1347
Constantinople
The plague was spread to Constaninople by rats on ships -
1347
Italy and Greece
Fleas were carried by people who were from Asia who were traveling along the trading routes all the way to Italy and then Greece -
1347
Egypt
It then spread to Egypt because of people trading from Constantinople -
1348
Britain and Ireland
Rats started to get infected by fleas and started biting people in Britain and Ireland -
1348
Genoa, Venice
The plague spread to Venice by more Genoese ships carrying flea infested rats -
1349
Northern Europe
The plague slowly started to spread to Northern Europe because of Genoese traders -
1349
Mecca
It was thought that the plague spread to Mecca because of infected pilgrims during the Haji celebration -
1351
Yemen
In 1351 the plague travelled all the way to Yemen -
1353
Moscow
The plague spread all the way to Moscow and by the time this happened 50 million people had died including around half of Europes population at the time