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=T **he Spread of th**e Black Death =

===The Black Plague was carried by fleas. Fleas were carried by rats. The rats would stay in the belly of ships and slip inside the crates that held the products that were being traded between the merchants. When the crates were dropped off the rats would hop out, and make their way throughout the land, spreading the fleas all over. Now when the fleas found a human, and vomited on their skin, the human received a very high risk of being infected with the plague. If the human===

happened to fall into that high percentage of the risk of being infected, they would start to get sores. Then their sickness would grow worse and worse, until they die in three days time.
===It is also believed that the Black Plague was spread not only by fleas and rats but by Mongolians. The Mongolians spread the disease in a very cruel way. They would rape the wives of the men that they killed in war, spreading the disease sexually. Another possible way that they spread the disease was the fact that their leader, Genghis Khan, threw diseased bodies over city walls of other empires. But this is not scientifically proven to be true.===

**The Black Plague also had a** major effect on any empire that the disease went through. About one third of the population was killed in the ancient world.
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