SOURCE2 When the Tartars attacked Caffa, they used trebuchets like the one shown in this illustration to catapult infected bodies over the city walls.
SOURCE3 Merchants and soldiers returning from Caffa in late 1347 soon spread the Black Death to the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.
Key
Caffa
City
Mongol city
Cologne
Paris
Sarai
Tana
1346
Jan 1348
Astrakhan
Nov 1347
Venice
Jan 1348
Caffa
Genoa
Avignon
BLACK SEA
CORSICA Nov 1347
Rome
Trebizond
Constantinople Nov−Dec 1347
Nov−Dec 1347
SARDINIA
Nov 1347
Messina
SICILY
Tunis
SYRIA
Oct 1347
S
Damascus
Tripoli
PALESTINE
Gaza
Alexandria
Nov−Dec 1347
0
500
1000
kilometres
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