What was the worlds bigest disaster (stuff like titanic and twin towers and so on)?
The pestilence that broke out in 1347-50 throughout Asia and Europe. Known by various general descriptions, it was eventually dubbed the Black Death, although this term was not applied to the disease until some 200 years after the fact. Historians and epidemiologists have tried to determine over the last several decades what this visitation was. We have a relatively good idea where it originally came from: somewhere in central Asia, in what is now western China. It disease then traveled along caravan routes as travelers took it into China and India. From there, it spread gradually westward across the deserts of the middle East, reaching the eastern Mediterranean Sea in about 1346. It then spread across Europe, and according to the best evidence that has been extracted from various records, between one third and one half of the entire population died.In many towns and villages, the plague was so devastating that an infestation might carry over every inhabitant of the village. The germ c
