Though the Black Death certainly came as a surprise to people of the Middle Ages, considering the living-conditions of those times, and especially the almost complete lack of medical know-how it is safe to say that the plague was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Back in the fifteenth century people knew nothing about hygiene, and went for months if not years at a time without properly cleaning their body. Rotten teeth as well as layers upon layers of unwashed filth on their skin were all factors that contributed to weakening the peoples’ immune system, making them highly susceptible to any kind of infection and disease. Cities and towns were all as dirty and mucky as present-day garbage dumps, people literally threw their garbage and bodily waste right out the window, trash covered the streets

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