The Black Death
The Black Death happened in the 1330’s and 1340’s. It began in central Asia, then moved westward to the Black Sea region, and then entered in the Mediterranean Sea. Where the coasts and ports which lay exposed to the infection. In passing the path of the panclemic Dols cities both Muslim and Christian sources, including the history of the fourteenth century Arabic writer Ibn- Al Wardi.

The Black Death almost certainly originated in the Asiatic steppe, where a permanent source of plague infection still exists amoung the wild rodents of the region. The whole of the central Asiatic plateau has been called,” One huge endemic area”.
The pandemic spread to the south and west. The Black Death traveled down to China and India, then moved westward toward Persia, and finally to the Crimea and the Mediterranean world.

Both Latin and Arabic Sources emphasize the fact that the pandemic was initially accompanied in the Far East by violent ecological changes like flooding, famines, and earthquakes. According to the Chinese it is clear that the second quarter of the fourteenth century witnessed an unusual large number of distracting environmental disturbances. These natural disasters may have destroyed rodent houses and food sources and forced rodents (such as rats) beyond their normally, very restricted habitat into contact with domestic rodents and humans settlements carrying the epidemic with them. (Dols, 41-42)

From this Bubonic plague about 20-40% of the population died. One reason why the plague spread rapidly was because of unhygienic conditions. Four major ways a disease spreads are Airborne, Waterborne, through vectors, and direct contact. Also there is Flea borne, where the disease spreads by fleas, such as the plagues spread when the black rats carried fleas to spread more quickly.

Victims who have the Black Death will bleed under the skin, leaving dark blotches. When the plague attacks the blood stream germs flow through the entire body. The death rate in the 14th century from the Black Death was virtually 100%. The plague in the Muslim world: In the fall of 1347, Italian merchants carried the plague into the Muslim world. Alexandria’s