When and How did the Black Death Spread

Where and how the black death spread? 

The black death was a disease that people caught. The fleas had bad bacteria and 

they travelled in the fur of rats, when the fleas drank blood from rats and humans they 

transferred the disease.

      Image 1 is a primary source and it shows us a picture of a flea. The people of the 14th century didn't know what caused the Black Death and it was only discovered approximately 100 years ago. The drawing of the flea is from the 1700's 
.      The disease spread very quickly and whoever got bitten by the fleas were the victims of black death. 
  

Image 1 Fleas  http://saburchill.com/history/chapters/chap4018f.html

The Black Death spread very quickly because: 

• In towns and cities people lived very close
• The filth that littered the street gave the rats the perfect environment to breed and increase their number.
• People believed that it was sin to bath everyday  so people were not clean
• Lack of medical knowledge meant that people tried anything to help them escape the disease.
• The people wanted to show their love of God by whipping themselves hoping that God would forgive them their sins and that they would be spared the Black Death. 
• The churches sent people to religious trips (pilgrimages) , this was bad because people well and unwell were being at the same space at the same time, this would spread it even more   
  because everybody passed it on to each other. 

                                         Image 2: Spreading of Black Death 

The Black death spread

towards Europe very quickly 

because Europe was trading

with the East, some medieval  Europeans were aware of a mysterious disease sweeping through Asia in the 1300's. From Central Asia, the disease moved along the trading routes to many other countries killing many people.   

Image 1 is a secondary source and it shows us how the black death spread towards the other countries in Europe. 

http://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/black-death1.htm

YouTube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Gk1a-RMAM

The YouTube Video contains information of Why and How the Black Death spread. The video describes every little detail of the spreading disease.