Black Plague Report

Trade affected migratory patterns by making permanent stay possible for the people who were migrating. People found ways to sustain themselves in a place they stopped on along the way and never made it to their actual destination. They stayed and populated that area that they saw that it was benefiting them. The movement of people to urban areas impact everyday life by making them more dependent on manufactured resources. For example people that moved to an urban area stopped harvesting food on their own and became dependent on supermarkets to get their food and sustain themselves. The movement to urban areas made them more prone to acquire diseases due to the poor health habits the city provided. An example can be found in England around the late 1340’s right around the time the Black Plague was starting. …show more content…
The carrier of the Black Death, the flea, lives off of fecal matter which made England a perfect place for them and a perfect place for the disease to spread in. People used the environment to help them move around the globe by using the resources the environment provided. For example, people were able to build boats from trees they cut down. A very successful boat built was the lateen sail. The sail of the lateen sail was made of cotton gathered from the environment. The cotton was weaved together tightly to make the sail usable. In order for the boat to move people use the wind to they would be able to travel People also used domesticated animals such as horses, camels, and llamas as a mode of transport for themselves and their belongings. The animal helped them facilitate their transport across regions and people would feed them and care for them in