25 Facts About Black Death

1. Black Death inspired European architecture to move in two different directions: a revival of Greco-Roman styles, and (2) a further elaboration of the Gothic style.

2. Black Death had a profound effect on art and literature.

3. Black Death encouraged innovation of labour-saving technologies, leading to higher productivity.

4. Black Death had a very big effect on Europe's population.

5. Black Death was a pandemic that killed millions of people.

6. Black Death caused shortages and price increases in staples such as wheat.

7. Black Death likely traveled to Norway via a ship that ran aground near Bergen harbor.

8. Black Death is over 2,000 years old and originated in China.

9. Black Death entered south-western England in Summer 1348 and by all accounts struck Bristol with shocking force.

10. Black Death was 'a squalid disease that killed within a week' and a national trauma that utterly transformed Britain.

11. Black Death was a pandemic that swept through not just Europe, but parts of Asia and Africa, leaving an absolutely devastating death toll in its wake.

12. Black Death started in 1347 and returned to Europe every generation with different degrees of intensity and fatality until the 1700s.

13. Black Death caused a lot of damages to the infrastructure in Europe.

14. Black Death not only resulted in the immediate destruction of thousands of Jewish lives and the loss of Jewish homes and property in hundreds of communities, but had more far-reaching consequences.

15. Black Death was born from an evolution of the bacterium Yersinia Pestis, which had its own pandemic in the year 500, known as the Plague of Justinian.

16. The Black Death killed half of the current Norweigan population in 1349.

17. The Black Death arrived in Norway on a ghost ship that just so happened become beached near a major port.

18. In 2012, the Black Death was reported in Oregon and Colorado.

19. Black Death was a pandemic plague that spread throughout Europe in the 14th Century.

20. The Black Death reached the extreme north of England, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries in 1350.

21. Black Death is widely believed to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

22. Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

23. Black Death had already made its way into Sicily and over the course of next 5 years, it claimed millions of lives.

24. Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.

25. Black Death is thought to have originated in the dry plains of Central Asia, where it travelled along the Silk Road, reaching Crimea by 1343.