Ancient port city on the Black Sea, believed the port from where the Bubonic Plague that devastated originated. Today, it is called Feodosiya in the Ukraine.
Plague
A destructive disease causing a high rate of mortality.
Pestilence
A contagious or infectious disease that is devastating.
Epidemic
A rapidly spreading outbreak of disease that affects a large portion of the population.
Bubo
An inflammatory swelling of a lymph gland, especially in the groin.
Flagellant
A person who whips him/herself to seek penance.
Anti-Semitism
Hatred, hostility, or discrimination of people of Jewish descent.
Bubonic Plague
"Black Death"; a deadly disease carried by fleas on rodents that devastated the population of Europe in the mid-14th century.
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