The Black Plague was a very dangerous plague that started in Europe in the early 1300’s. It took out nearly a third of all the European population during the first wave and more followed that. This plague started thanks to the Y. Pestis bug in China and from there, it just rapidly began to spread across Europe. Of course, we now know a lot of information about this today, but in the early 1300’s people didn’t really understand what was going on. The Europeans began to try to figure out the cause of this plague but they never were correct. One document said, “... any old linen or woollen cloths…” (Lualdi 255) may not be brought in because they had thought these were the cause of the spread. Another said, “When the sailors reached these places
