<P> The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship . By the end of 1346 , reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe : `` India was depopulated , Tartary , Mesopotamia , Syria , Armenia were covered with dead bodies '' . </P>
<P> The disease may have travelled along the Silk Road with Mongol armies and traders or it could have come via ship . By the end of 1346 , reports of plague had reached the seaports of Europe : `` India was depopulated , Tartary , Mesopotamia , Syria , Armenia were covered with dead bodies '' . </P>
when did the black plague start in europe
when did the black plague start in europe
By the end of 1346
By the end of 1346