<P> Nevertheless , from Central Asia it was carried east and west along the Silk Road , by Mongol armies and traders making use of the opportunities of free passage within the Mongol Empire offered by the Pax Mongolica . It was reportedly first introduced to Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 . After a protracted siege , during which the Mongol army under Jani Beg was suffering the disease , they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants . The Genoese traders fled , bringing the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe , whence it spread . </P>
<P> Nevertheless , from Central Asia it was carried east and west along the Silk Road , by Mongol armies and traders making use of the opportunities of free passage within the Mongol Empire offered by the Pax Mongolica . It was reportedly first introduced to Europe at the trading city of Caffa in the Crimea in 1347 . After a protracted siege , during which the Mongol army under Jani Beg was suffering the disease , they catapulted the infected corpses over the city walls to infect the inhabitants . The Genoese traders fled , bringing the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe , whence it spread . </P>
where do historians believe the black death originated
where do historians believe the black death originated
Central Asia
Central Asia