I thought a rough out line might give you the best information, do here goes;
Having originated in China and Inner Asia, the Black Death decimated the army of the Kipchak khan Janibeg while he was besieging the Genoese trading port of Kaffa (now Feodosiya) in Crimea (1347). With his forces disintegrating, Janibeg used trebuchets to catapult plague-infested corpses into the town in an effort to infect his enemies. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, whence it spread inland, affecting Sicily (1347); North Africa, mainland Italy, Spain, and France (1348); and Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries (1349). A ship from Calais carried the plague to Melcombe Regis, Dorset, in August 1348. It reached Bristol almost immediately and spread rapidly throughout the South Western counties of England. London suffered most violently between February and May 1349, East Anglia and Yorkshire during that summer. The Black Death reached the extreme north of England, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries in 1350.
There were recurrences of the plague in 1361–63, 1369–71, 1374–75, 1390, and 1400. Modern research has suggested that, over that period of time, plague was introduced into Europe multiple times, coming along trade routes in waves from Central Asia as a result of climate fluctuations that affected populations of rodents infested with plague-carrying fleas.
The rate of mortality from the Black Death varied from place to place: whereas some districts, such as the duchy of Milan, Flanders, and Béarn, seem to have escaped comparatively lightly, others, such as Tuscany, Aragon, Catalonia, and Languedoc, were very hard-hit. Towns, where the danger of contagion was greater, were more affected than the countryside, and within the towns the monastic communities provided the highest incidence of victims. Even the great and powerful, who were more capable of flight, were struck down: among royalty, Eleanor, queen of Peter IV of Aragon, and King Alfonso XI of Castile succumbed, and Joan, daughter of the English king Edward III, died at Bordeaux on the way to her wedding with Alfonso’s son. Canterbury lost two successive archbishops, John de Stratford and Thomas Bradwardine; Petrarch lost not only Laura, who inspired so many of his poems, but also his patron, Giovanni Cardinal Colonna. The papal court at Avignon was reduced by one-fourth. Whole communities and families were sometimes annihilated.
Effects and significance
The consequences of this violent catastrophe were many. A cessation of wars and a sudden slump in trade immediately followed but were only of short duration. A more lasting and serious consequence was the drastic reduction of the amount of land under cultivation, due to the deaths of so many labourers. This proved to be the ruin of many landowners. The shortage of labour compelled them to substitute wages or money rents in place of labour services in an effort to keep their tenants. There was also a general rise in wages for artisans and peasants. These changes brought a new fluidity to the hitherto rigid stratification of society.
The psychological effects of the Black Death were reflected north of the Alps (not in Italy) by a preoccupation with death and the afterlife evinced in poetry, sculpture, and painting; the Roman Catholic Church lost some of its monopoly over the salvation of souls as people turned to mysticism and sometimes to excesses.
Anti-Semitism greatly intensified throughout Europe as Jews were blamed for the spread of the Black Death. A wave of violent pogroms ensued, and entire Jewish communities were killed by mobs or burned at the stake en masse.
The economy of Siena received a decisive check. The city’s population was so diminished that the project of enlarging the cathedral was abandoned, and the death of many great painters, such as Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti, brought the development of the first Sienese school to a premature end.
In England the immediate effects of the epidemic of 1349 seem to have been of short duration, and the economic decline which reached its nadir in the mid-15th century should probably be attributed rather to the pandemic recurrence of the plague.
The study of contemporary archives suggests a mortality varying in the different regions between one-eighth and two-thirds of the population, and the French chronicler Jean Froissart’s statement that about one-third of Europe’s population died in the epidemic may be fairly accurate. The population in England in 1400 was perhaps half what it had been 100 years earlier; in that country alone, the Black Death certainly caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1,000 villages. A rough estimate is that 25 million people in Europe died from plague during the Black Death. The population of Western Europe did not again reach its pre-1348 level until the beginning of the 16th century.
The plague is spread by fleas.
I always heard that when Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in Rama that linked cats to satanism and witchcraft in 1233, it led to a purging of cats throughout much of Europe. As a result, rats carrying the infected fleas proliferated and led to the widespread plague.
But I just looked it up found this interesting article
https://medium.com/illumination-curated/did-pope-gregory-ixs-hatred-of-cats-lead-to-the-black-death-327d163adfb2
It was spread by human fleas not rat ones. It spread far to fast across the uk for that. Most likely entered the uk from sailors who had a little nocturnal fun with the locals at Weymouth and it spread from there. Originally it most likely emerged in North Kyrgyzstan.
China it's origin of most viruses like new Influenza variants and bacterial infection like bubonic plague (black death). China's coast regions have been always dense populated, this is beneficial for illness transmissions from animal to human and human to human.
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The fact that the British people were exposed to the french lifestyle during the 100 year war and lacked the biological adaptation to filthiness. Countless millions of French people died so that the rest of the French could live like the swine they are.
More civilized Brits shunned such savage behavior, and as such never developed immunity necessary. Such is why there has been no war with the French since the age of biological warfare, nonetheless the NHS is working tirelessly to find ways to correct this military vulnerability of the British Nation against her old enemies.
Plague infected fleas spread by rats. Little natural immunity to a deadly disease so huge number of people died.
As others have mentioned, while its poetic to believe killing cats had an effect, most things I've read suggest that it didn't matter. (but I'm still mad they killed the cats)
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8 - Trump's golf resorts over there
9 - not adapting to the metric system
The fleas which lived on the rats, the plague was manageable at first until they started killing the cats thinking they were the problem which of course made the rat population grow.
Rats, they form colonies, bacteria and virus can evolve exponentially in a rat colony. The silk road and granary's and warehouses allowed virus genes to "shake hands" for hundreds of years, as we humans got better and bigger at trade. Hell we even created a brand new crucible for the viral genes to breed and interact via the sailing trade.
Shhhh! You'll give the Chinese ideas for making a new plague.
Was that the caused when they kill all the cats, leaving nothing to control the rat population, which with so much rat poop it infected everyone, seems like there was one pandemic started like that
Hygiene standards were horrible back then
Just as it was in France and all those other countries
The Europeans had to be taught to bathe
If I remember my history it was the fleas on rats and mice that was the source of it
It was flea infested rats, from sailing ships coming in from France.
Hygiene. No one washed after wipping their ass after taking a shit.
I believe it was vermin with the sniffles and people who didn’t bathe
Deadly combo
Probably Bud Light.
It was developed in a lab in china.
Cause of rat tails
The White policeman in the UK.
Same as over here: blacks killing other blacks.
Infestation of aninal feces
Sickness carried by vermin like rats. Filth.
Moslomic rats
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