Try to imagine what people were thinking back in the 1400s as the black plague was taking over the world , and nobody had any idea of disease and the disease vectors and causes
The dark ages
I was a history minor in college and I took a history course on 14th century Europe. It was appalling.
People had NO idea what was happening and confused, angry, sick people did all the worst things that they might do.
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October 1347
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.