History Of The Black Death

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The Black Death was an extremely terrible illness that swept across Europe on someday in october in the year 1347. The Black Death was responsible for as many as 20 million people about one third of the continent. The Death arrived on trade ships and that’s how it got to europe there are still many unanswered questions about the illness and how it just disappeared after a five year spread.

The year was 1347 was when twelve Genoese trading ships came to the sicilian port in Messina after their journey through the black sea. Most of the people who gathered at the port were met with the majority of the sailors dead and the rest severely sick. The name black death came from the strange looking black boils that oozed pus and

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