what role did rats play in european history during the 1300's?

Answer 1

They carried the fleas that spread the plague.

Answer 2

I believe rats caused a plague in Europe in the 1300's.

Answer 3

The rats weren't the contaminated ones, the fleas that lived on rats have been what replaced into contaminated with the Black Plague yet a rat might slip onto a deliver in a single city, and get off in yet another city, in basic terms following the nutrition shipment, yet spreading illnesses with the little passengers on their backs.

Answer 4

In Asia in the 13th Century lived a little animal called the marmoset, and it carried plague. This creature used to spit alot, and these droplets would settle on migratory rats fur, Consequently, the disease was carried from Asia to Europe by the rats, and as Europeans immune systems were not used to this kind of bacterial infection, we had no immunities to the illness. The plague ravaged Europe killing millions.
A little simplified, but I hope this helps.

Answer 5

As another poster stated, it was not the rats, but their fleas, that spread the plague. The rats were especially prevalent because people thought it was dogs and cats (who are naturally hunters of rats) that were spreading the plague and killed them all off, ensuring that the rats would be able to spread the plague even further.

Answer 6

the rats carried the "black plague" that killed something like 25 million people in europe during the 1300's. it took until about 1800 for the world to repopulate to levels prior to the great plague in europe!!! 500 years. here is a site that will help you.

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/Springfield/eliz/plague.html

Answer 7

Rats were a major factor in spreading the Black Death in Europe. Some believe the Black Death actually started around the Mediterranean in the ships with the rats, and these rats spread it throughout Europe.

Answer 8

The Black/ Bubonic Plague - spread across Europe from Germany, and to it, we can attribute population control (through death), spread of disease and a post-plague society change, whereby a significant number of tenament-occupiers moved away from the over-crowded towns and into the countryside.

Also:

Ring-a-ring-a-rosie
(Rosie red ring-like structures appeared on the skin)
A pocket full of posies
(The supposed cure for the plague at the time was the posie, a flower)
A tissue, A tissue (Americans say 'Ashes, Ashes' here.)
(Flu-like symptoms)
We all fall down
(We all... die)

That's where that lovely little childhood rhyme came from. You'll never forget it again now!

Answer 9

yea, they carried fleas which spread to human, and gave them a diease called the black plague...which later developed into a massive spread of it, killing tons of people, they even used it for biological warfare(throwing dead infected bodies over enemys walls, infecting them) i'm not to positive on the details of the diease though.

Answer 10

They started some plague that killed millions, but I forgot the name of the plague, i think it was the black plague.

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