used to be thought that the Black Death originated in China, but new research sh

http://www.historytoday.com/ole-j-benedictow/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever#sthash.hVY6px39.dpuf”—-“It used to be thought that the Black Death originated in China, but new research shows that it began in the spring of 1346 in the steppe region, where a plague reservoir stretches from the north-western shores of the Caspian Sea into southern Russia.”–