Bubonic Plague
The Black Death, or the bubonic plague, was a disease that started to spread through Europe. ... It seemed that if you just saw a person with the Black Plague, three days later you would be dead yourself. The black Plague began in the Gobi desert in the 1320s. ... Bubonic plague had been absent from Western Europe for nearly a period of a thousand years when it appeared in 1348. ... About to two-thirds of the population in major cities in Europe succumbed to the plague in the first two years. ... Plague stimulated authors and poets to write about effects the on society if this disease endures. ... Bubonic plague is seen in the swellings, or buboes. They inflate the lymph nodes at the neck, armpit or groin, while the pneumonic plague affects the lungs and victims choke on their blood.