BLACK DEATH
A terrible disease reached Europe from Eastern countries. The Europeans thought it to be a curse of the 'savages' who lived in these countries. Today, this disease is understood to be bubonic pneumonia plague .
England, at that point of time was prosperous. On a fine summer day in 1348, a French sailor stepped on English soil . He unknowingly carried the bacillus of the disease, and become the origin of the pestilence that later came to be known as the black death.
It is estimated that at least half a million people - which was a large percentage of the world's population - fell prey to black death . The black death spread , and reached it's peak in the spring of 1349.
It died out during autumn that same year , leaving behind a disrupted society, and having ruined trade in Europe .
A terrible disease reached Europe from Eastern countries. The Europeans thought it to be a curse of the 'savages' who lived in these countries. Today, this disease is understood to be bubonic pneumonia plague .
England, at that point of time was prosperous. On a fine summer day in 1348, a French sailor stepped on English soil . He unknowingly carried the bacillus of the disease, and become the origin of the pestilence that later came to be known as the black death.
It is estimated that at least half a million people - which was a large percentage of the world's population - fell prey to black death . The black death spread , and reached it's peak in the spring of 1349.
It died out during autumn that same year , leaving behind a disrupted society, and having ruined trade in Europe .
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