Migration+stories

 Bubonic Plague Migration/columbian exchange  How it came to Europe
 * Rats on merchant ships brought to west Europe and from there it moved all over Europe.
 * From Central Asia, the disease moved along an established trade route, passing through Turkestan and the Black Sea Region.

 People Fleeing
 * Farmers left their farms so the prices went up.
 * Rich people left town for the country because they thought they were safer out there.
 * Jews were fleeing from all the killing to Poland where they were protected by the king, Casimir
 * This migration brings large quantities of Yiddish* speaking Jews into Poland and Russia.
 * many surfs fleed to America because nobody owed any land there and they couldn't own land in Europe because it was to expensive.

*Yiddish: The Jews own version of German, which was developed in the medieval centuries.

How our families got to the USA Hayley: media type="youtube" key="_lXMhVjIPKc?rel=0" height="251" width="448" []

Zoe: media type="youtube" key="5o6l_zeuyec" height="251" width="448"

<span style="color: #00ff85; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Nicholas: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">My family came over from Ireland and Germany.