Discuss the spread and result of the bubonic plague
What will be an ideal response?
Essay responses should include these points:
• The plague spread from the infected fleas on the rats aboard a trade ship.
• The plague was made worse by the lack of food and basic hygiene.
• The illness afflicted humans across socioeconomic classes.
• The physical signs included buboes (infectious, pus-filled) swelling in the lymph glands.
• The death rate in many populated areas was as high as 60 percent.
• The plague was continually referenced in art and literature, sometimes around a moral lesson.
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