-Almost 1/3 of the worlds population had died from the plague by 1350 -Estimates go from 100 to 200 million deaths worldwide -The mortality rate of the bubonic plague was 30% to 75% percent.
The people back then thought the Plague was transferred through bad air, but in the 17th century that they revealed the plague's true cause, Yersenia pestis, a rod shaped bacterium that is transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rats.
The Black Death also known as the Plague. The Plague had a major effect on Europe's economy, because of the Black Death an estimated 75-200 million people were killed, which then lead to the reduce of workers, which then lead to the economy crashing then the price of goods went up. But the positive of the black plague was an advancement in modern medicine, but because of all the death the people turned to the church for answers and considered that God turned his back on them during the plague so they turned their backs on him, and the people who still worshiped in God did it privately.