The Spread Of The Black Death In Western Europe
Around 1347 in Western Europe, an Asia epidemic, The Black Death became widely spread through frequent trading with infected cities. In three years’ time, one third or about twenty-five millions of Europe’s population was killed by the plague. The Black Death victims were susceptible to contracting the plague due the seven year famine that occurred directly before the outbreak. Shortage of food, caused by extreme weathers that prevented crop growth, weakened the population’s immunity to deadliest disease in history (Last, John M., 122-123). For places like Paris, Vienna, and isolated villages like them, the illness spread quickly within the community of people. As more people were infected, it was discovered that there was more than one