Re: Black Death timeline

In article <MPG.238954b84dcd541c989741@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
SolomonW <SolomonW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Indeed today even with the railway and the steamship, a 20th-century
plague, because of its dependence on the homebound rat, spreads overland
at about 8 miles per year. But Black death traveled faster then that.
Another possibility is that it was not black death but something else.

Back then fleas traveled on some people, too.

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  • Re: Black Death timeline
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    (soc.history.medieval)