Y’all realize the Black Death spread all over Europe because the rich people wanted their imported goods. Trade must go on!
It wasn’t the peasants who were buying silks and exotic spices.
It wasn’t the peasants who were buying silks and exotic spices.
LOL, I never expected this tweet to gain such attention. It is a gross oversimplification, but it is only meant to bring attention to the fact that the expansion of trade along the Silk Road, after Marco Polo visited China, spread plague from China. It allowed it to pass the X 
Once plague went past that red X, into Persia and the Middle East, the dye was cast for Europe. But getting across those deserts and mountains from China was not something that people did unless there were great rewards in return. It was also spread by war. Again, greed.
Peasants get little benefit and much pain from war.
Muting this thread because there is some serious ridiculousness going on in the replies.
Apparently some consider the very name “Black Death” as racist. Just wow. Go look up necrosis.
Apparently some consider the very name “Black Death” as racist. Just wow. Go look up necrosis.
And I turned off the replies because I was told that some responses were racist. I don't have time to go looking for them. Racists are never welcome in my threads.
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