The Plague During The Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages, the amplification of the Black Death—the plague—from malnutrition and weakened immune systems made the quality of life decrease significantly similar to the population of Europe in the same era. In a time of colder temperatures combined with a constant shortage of food, many people struggled to fend against a disease with no viable cure nor treatment at the time. As a way to address the circumstances at hand, many individuals formulated opposing theories as to why the habitants of Eurasian were strongly vulnerable to this specific disease dubbed the Black Death, where most were not accurate or practical as relating to the real cause for the spread of this disease. Some individuals took another way to cope with the constant death around them and chose to blame and systematically punish an entire ethnic group/religion for something that was implausible to accomplish—and severely too inhumane simultaneously—especially for the complete magnitude the disease had engendered.
The Black Plague that arose in Europe stemmed back from fleas in Mongolia. These specific fleas harbored a deadly, non-mobile bacteria known as the Y. pestis and could be found normally on the marmots native to Mongolia. Consequently, it would be natives to Mongolia, the Mongol Warriors, to spread this infectious, fatal disease to the populations of Eurasia by ushering black rats contaminated with the very specific fleas that were home to Y. pestis. From the Mongol Warriors, the disease continued to spread its way to China and eventually the Merchants from Genoese unintentionally unfurled the disease’s wrath upon Europe through the silk road to Caffa and soon to