![]() ![]() The plague arrives in France, brought by another of the Caffa ships docking in Marseille. Fleeing residents then spread it to mainland Italy, where one-third of the population is dead by the following summer. Here the plague kills half the population and moves to Messina. One ship arrives in Constantinople, which, once infected, loses as much as 90 percent of its population.Īnother Caffan ship docks in Sicily, the crew barely alive. As the army catapults the infected bodies of their dead over city walls, the under-siege Genoese become infected also.īoth sides in the siege are decimated and survivors in Caffa escape by sea, leaving behind streets covered with corpses being fed on by feral animals. Upon arrival at Caffa, Janiberg’s army lays siege for a year but they are stricken with an outbreak. ![]() Following the death of one of the Muslims, the Italians flee by sea to the Genoese outpost of Caffa and Janiberg follow on land. Mongol King Janiberg and his army are in the nearby city of Tana when a brawl erupts between Italian merchants and a group of Muslims. The deadliest outbreak is in the Mongol capital of Sarai, which the Mongols carry west to the Black Sea area. It is possibly passed to humans by a tarabagan, a type of marmot. pestis emerges in Mongolia, according to John Kelly’s account in The Great Mortality. ![]() Fresco by an anonymous painter depicting 'The Triumph of Death.' Death as a skeleton rides a skeletal horse and picks off his victims. ![]()
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