11/3/2016 0 Comments The Spread of the Black DeathFor the interactive map on how the Black Plague spread throughout Europe it showed in which order towns and cities were infected, and the trade routes from around there because the Black Plague was transferred from a different place and brought to a foreign land through traders. The plague would have more likely entered Europe from the Genoese trade route because in the map, the Genoese trade route comes from somewhere out of the right of the map, while the Venetian route is right there from Europe. The Genoese route also goes farther out from London than the Venetian, so the plague was able to reach to Hamburg. I think that the plague traveled more along the shipping routes than on land because people couldn't walk over water, reach their destination, and spread the infection. For example for the infection to spread all the way to London someone infected obviously had to be there which would make it spread more, and since it was first seen in Messina, no one form London could have just spread it. Infected traders had to take a vessel there in order for the plague to continue to spread. For the plague to spread to people in Paris, I think that it would've made its way across Europe on land because people went to Paris to do a lot of trading. There were marketplaces were people went to go trade their goods. So I think people from towns and cities would've walked with their goods to bigger, more populated cities like Paris where it would spread more. I feel that the reason it took so long for the plague to get to London, when it was in Paris a year earlier, might've been the weather. Since you had to travel to London by vessel people may have not went over the sea or used boats in the winter, because of safety. When the ice began to melt later on, and it got warmer people went overseas. People wouldn't have had as much to trade because things can't grow in the wrong weather, so people wouldn't go trade and that's how it wouldn't spread for a while. Hamburg was probably a place where people started to figure things out because in the map, the routes don't go out as far to Hamburg. Traders went overland to go trade their goods in Hamburg even though they didn't do it by ship. I believe that it was possible for the plague to travel directly from Genoa to Hamburg passing Paris because since there was an overland trading route going from Genoa to Hamburg, the plague could've made its way through a trader from Genoa to Hamburg and continue to spread and contaminate people.
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