Europe’s population had increased a lot during the 13th century, but Europe didn’t make enough food, so there was a lot of famines. Physicians and apothecaries had cures for people, but their methods were not effective and usually made the person more worst. The Mongols saw that by taking over Genoa’s ports that they would be wealthy. In 1347 the Mongols attacked the town with catapults, but the Genoese didn’t surrender. T

At the end the plague killed 25 million people. The plague died off in the 1350s.

At the beginning it killed mostly people that lived by the ports, but then it moved inland and killed more people. The plague spread by a flea biting a rat which gets infected, the bacteria multiply inside the rat’s stomach, flea bites human, human dies and the cycle continues. When the black rats gets bitten the bacteria multiplies, blocking its stomach and making it very hungry, eventually the rat dies of hunger. The flea then tries to find a new host, but since most of the rats died it will bite nearby humans. There were three ways the plague can spread it was, the Bubonic type which made swellings or buboes which mostly appeared on the person’s neck, armpits, or groin, the swellings were usually as big as an egg or sometimes an apple. Infected fleas spread this type of the plague, and this type was the most common one. The life expectancy of the person was about one to two weeks. The second type is the pneumatic plague, which attacked the infected person’s lung systems by just breathing the infected person’s air. The plague starts to attack the lungs and it ends up filling the lungs with blood making the victim c

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Italy Italy, Black Plague, Medieval Europe, Plague Survivors, black plague, plague spread, people plague, blood victim, plague people, black rats, europe’s population, killed people, infected person’s, dead bodies,