The Black Death | 2. origins & spread
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The Black Death - The Largest Human Disease in History
When plague did arrive in europe, seemingly piggy backing on those grain shipments, the story is picked up by european chroniclers. If enough rodents survive the journey alive, so we're talking a couple of months to move across the mediterranean. And where are they arriving? They are riding into port citi, ther riving into what are already urban congregations.
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