The year is 1347, the place, Europe. Traders are a prominent source of financial and cultural distribution among the Eastern continent. Unbeknownst to the merchants that were traveling during this time, they not only spread many goods from the rural areas of Europe to its richer inner districts, but, they harbored one of the worst diseases known to mankind, the Black Plague. By 1348, the disease had spread from the Silk Roads to Constantinople, to which over the course of its life-span (slowing around 1353), had killed between 30-60% of Europe’s population. A grand total of 200 million people had perished because of the disease, how did this disease spread? Truthfully, it was the fleas that were carried by ground rodents such as marmots in
