How_The_Bubonic_Plague_Rebuilt_The_Major_Polities_Of_Eurasia

How The Bubonic Plague Rebuilt The Major Polities Of Eurasia How the Bubonic Plaque Rebuilt the Polities of Eurasia Going into the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire had grown to an unprecedented level. Under the control of the Khans the Mongol empire consisted of almost all of Asia and parts of Eastern Europe, reaching into Poland and Hungary (Tignor et al. 37). From this point of Mongolian rule up to the end of the fourteenth century the bubonic plague spread throughout the Eurasian land mass. These germs devastated the societies of Eurasia. However, the devastation caused by the bubonic plague or the Black Death opened up the opportunity to rebuild the polities of Eurasia. When Mongol armies besieged the Genoese trading outpost of Caffa on the black sea they not only damaged old trading links between the Far East and the Mediterranean, they also unleashed an even more devastating and invisible force. The Mongols brought with them to Caffa a disease picked up in the Gobi desert: the bubonic plague. The plague was then carried to Italian seaports where it spread up into Europe and the Northern parts of Africa via trade routes. As a result of this epidemic outbreak the death rates among infected populations ranged from 25 to 50 bubonic, plague, polities, eurasia, trade, tignor, et, al, europe, empire, trading, throughout, spread, power, dynasties, caused, among, societies, ruling, routes, result, rebuild, monarchies, major, century, west, weakening, through, rebuilt, populations, political, mongol, islamic, industry, eurasian, devastation