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The Black Plague was a pandemic that spread throughout Europe and parts of Asia. It spread mostly through the mid 14 century and killed people every day. The Black Plague started with Fleas that jumped on Mice/Rats who were aboard a ship or two that carried the mice to the America's. A lot of people died as the mice traveled with this disease, the fleas carried the disease to the humans, the ones who survived were lucky. The plague traveled on the Silk Road, when Chinese people were trading with Europeans. The plague spread within a few years. Once you got it there was no cure, because they didn't know anyting about germs. They thought if you came in contact with another person with the plague then you would get the plague too. The Black Plague isn't the only epidemic that hit the world hard. Another sickness is called 'Small Pox'. Small Pox is a disease that wiped out most of the Native American's that lived in the United States during that time. But, Small Pox wasn't worldwide. It traveled from Europe, Europeans were immune to this disease. It traveled on the Colombian Exchange. Which was a trade route to the America's.