Question

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1. Describe the route by which the plague reached Italy.
2. What is similar about the countries that were first to suffer from the Black Death?
3. Describe the path of the plague after it arrived in Italy.

Answer 1

1. Mongols carried it across China to the Byzantine Empire. It sailed from Byzantine ports to Messina, Sicily.
2. The Urban areas, or crowded military camps, depending, were filthy and no one really understood what the plague was
3. After landing in Sciliy, the plague spread up the Italy peninsula to Central Europe and reached France and Spain by merchant vessels from Italy.