HISTORY

An earthquake in central Asia released the plague bacillus. The area was under the control of the Mongol Khanate. Rodents are the first infected.
Fleas suck the blood from rats and can not swallow it, the flea then bites humans and infects them by injecting the blood.
An outbreak of plague killed large numbers of Mongol troops that were besieging the port of Kaffa. The leader of the troops, Kipchak Khan catapulted dead bodies over the city walls.
The people of Kaffa boarded ships to escape the plague taking the disease with them.
2nd September 1348, King Edward's daughter died of the Plague.
About 3,000 Jews were killed in Germany because of the Black Death. The Germans blamed it on the Jews, and believed that they should exterminate them all. (1349)
By February 1349, the Black death would take the life of about 200 people.
By 1354, Trade and immigration were the two main causes that the plague to spread to most of Europe, including: United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Scotland & Russia
The Black Death caused a decline in trade. As interactions were decreasing.
The Black Death caused the wages to go up, as there were fewer people doing the same amount of work.
Overall, the Black Death caused the death of nearly 25 million people, over the coarse of about five years.

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