Fill in the Blanks The Black DeathOnline version Text about the Black Death. Description and filling the gaps with key concepts. by Alfonso Poza 1 sailors illness million Sicilian journey ships docks Death sea boils Black The Death arrived in Europe by in October 1347 when 12 Genoese trading docked at the Sicilian port of Messina after a long through the Black Sea . The people who gathered on the to greet the ships were met with a horrifying surprise : Most of the aboard the ships were dead , and those who were still alive were ill . They were covered in mysterious black that gave their its name : the " Black Death . " The authorities ordered the fleet out of the harbor , but it was too late : Over the next five years , the mysterious Black would kill more than 20 people in Europe .
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