MAP 11.1 The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century EuropeThe bubonic plague spread across Europe after beginning in the mid-1340s, with the first cases of disease reported in Black Sea ports.> MAPPING THE PASTANALYZING THE MAP: When did the plague reach Paris? How much time passed before it spread to the rest of northern France and southern Germany? Which cities and regions were spared?CONNECTIONS: How did the expansion of trade contribute to the spread of the Black Death?