Historians studying the spread of the plague discovered that the disease was spread by fleas that are commonly found on rodents such as rats and mice. As such, it is now understood that the plague spread via trade routes as the rodents travelled in caravans and on merchant ships.

What were the three effects of the bubonic plague?

It is likely that all three played some role in the pandemic. Bubonic plague causes fever, fatigue, shivering, vomiting, headaches, giddiness, intolerance to light, pain in the back and limbs, sleeplessness, apathy, and delirium.

What did they think caused the Black Plague?

What did people think caused the plague? Some believed it was a punishment from God, some believed that foreigners or those who followed a different religion had poisoned the wells, some thought that bad air was responsible, some thought the position of the planets had caused the plague.

How did the Black Death change the economy?

The economic changes which followed the plague allowed people to significantly improve their personal economic positions to such an extent that, a generation later, they were willing to take up arms to protect those gains. Second, that economic change led to the emergence of a different social structure.

Where did the spread of the Black Death occur?

There were three arteries of trade that spread the Black Death; all ended in Italy. The first was an overland path through northern China and across central Asia to the trading ports on the Black Sea’s northern coast.

How did shipping routes aid in transmitting the Black Death?

Ask: How did shipping routes aid in transmitting the plague? [Answer: Infected rats and fleas made way onto ships in contaminated food and supplies. The plague was also transmitted through rat, work animal, and human waste. Ships could efficiently get to other continents as they sailed the seas.]

How did people cope with the Black Death?

The Morgan Library & Museum. Source: Google Art Project: Looking around our local community and whisking up to 50 % of your neighbours and family away, makes you wonder how people coped with the daily challenge of feeding and clothing themselves after 1349 – 50?