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How the Black Death Set Sail for Europe

Season 22 Episode 10 | 1m 05s

In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard the grain vessels spread the plague that would become the Black Death. Within months, Italian ports fell. By the next year, the plague spread from the Mediterranean to England.

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