Page 24 - Networks of Exchange 1200-1450

Trade Routes -

Environmental Consequences -

Black Death (Bubonic Plague)

● From there, the plague spread rapidly

throughout Europe as far as the British

Isles.

● Europeans referred to the plague as the

Black Death because its victims developed

black or purple swellings caused by

buboes, internal hemorrhages that gave the

plague its name.

● Once the plague hit a community, typically

60-70 percent of the population died, and

in some cases, no one survived.