What were the causes of the Black Death, and why did it spread so quickly throughout Western Europe? How did it affect European society? ?

What you think?The black death was one of the deadliest diseases during the 1330s and the 1340s. It was known to spread from Mongolia to China, northern India, and western Asia and it was known to spread through the trade routes. These trade routes were apart of the spread and it was even carried through the black sea where it was carried to Sicily and North Africa and even northern Italy. This disease was so deadly that it is known around 40 to 70 percent of the populations from these areas were dead. We have heard about how with the bubonic plague, the diseas was carried through fleas which were found on rats, hamsters, dogs, etc. This disease strongly impacted European society because over half of Europes population had died. There were several social and economic consequences like crops rotting and trade eventually haulting. Certain cities became victims of outbreaks of violence that were caused by overcrowed and not sanitary causing people to be at a higher risk of infection. This disease in particular changed the course of life for many people in Europe. It caused people to think more about how to protect one another from any future pandemics and how to better prepare themselves for something like this in the future. If we look at the world today and the current pandemic we are living in, we are focused on trying to protect one another by wearing masks and forming better sanitation within public places. We are also aiming our focus at trying to find a cure for COVID-19