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How Trade Brought the Black Death to Europe

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A look at how expanding medieval trade routes inadvertently carried a deadly plague to European ports in the late 1340s.

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  • 1. Introduces how trade networks inadvertently enabled the devastating plague to spread across European communities.

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However trade also created a way for dangerous diseases to travel. In the late 1340s a devastating plague began reaching European ports. People had little understanding of what was happening. At first everyday life continued but soon the first towns began reporting a mysterious and deadly illness. Fears spread through communities as families watched their neighbors become sick. The disease was about to transform Europe in ways nobody could have imagined.

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