LESSON 3.14 How did the bubonic plague spread?
LEARNING INTENTION By the end of this lesson you should be able to: • explain the role of trade in the spread of the bubonic plague • describe the distribution of the Black Death across three continents.
Tune in Examine SOURCE1 and consider the relationship between trade and the spread of the disease.
SOURCE1 Permanent human settlement led to the growth of towns and expansion of trade, which allowed the Black Death to spread more easily.
Key
Naples
City
Silk Road
Scandinavia
Other trade routes
Muslim pilgrimage routes
Area of outbreak of Black Death
0
1000
2000
Moscow
Britain
kilometres
London
ASIA
EUROPE
ATLANTIC
Venice
Caffa
OCEAN
Genoa
BLACK SEA
ITALY
Naples
Constantinople
SPAIN
GREECE
Lisbon
Athens
Tabriz
Tunis
Xian
A
Tripoli
Baghdad
Marrakesh
CHINA
Alexandria
Hangzhou
Hubei
EGYPT
Bagan
Arabian Peninsula
Mecca
PACI F IC
INDIA
BURMA
OCEAN
Timbuktu
ARABIAN
AFRICA
Aden
SEA
INDIAN OCEAN
In groups, discuss the following questions: • Why did people need to trade so much?
• There are some areas which were affected by the plague earlier than others — why do you think that is? • Why are there large areas of the world unaffected — do you believe that they did not have any plague at all during this period?
3.14.1 Settlements and trade The early fourteenth century was a time of rapid expansion of trade between Europe, North Africa and Asia. Wherever people traded, black rats and their disease-carrying fleas followed. Disease that had previously been confined to an area in Central Asia soon spread to populations that had no immunity to its infection.
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