why disease in silk road
People got very sick, some even died, because of the disease that was traveled across the silk road. People did not notice that they were passing disease to other people until they started dying. The Black Death was one of the diseases that killed a lot of people and one reason it spread. Who was involved: There where many people involved in the Silk Road such as the Chinese, the Europeans and Central Asia. One of the first people that where involved in the silk road was Emperor Wudi.