The Black Death

The greatest epidemic to ever hit the human race and on two of the largest continents. Asia and Europe felt the disasturous affects of the plague that was supposedly based on the Yersinia pestis bacteria. The plague started in Asia and traveled to Europe, supposedly aboard a ship coming from the Asian continent carrying rats and passengers that had contracted the plague. With the plague came persecution of minorties that were believed to be the cause of the spread. The plague did not all take place in one time frame. A variation of the plague was felt across Europe every hundread years or so until the early seventeen hundreds.