One bad result of the Silk road’s cultural exchange was the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black death. This plague was able to kill 25 million people, decimating some countries’ populations. The Silk road is to blame because of the continuous contact between the East and West. The plague is said to have originated in China and was able to be spread via fleas on the Mongols’ bags of grain and on their clothing. It also spread due to travelers and merchants traveling across the Silk road bringing contaminated products along with them. There are also some aspects of the culture at that time to blame, such as their horrible hygiene and the sharing of polluted and/or contaminated water. The toll that the plague took on the population ended up
