Please fully reword this in a way that keeps the information and historical context. I copied and pasted and it goes through a plagiarism checker. It is AP world history my final exam.

Prompt: 1. Environmental factors shaped human societies, and as populations grew and changed, these populations in turn shaped their environments.
Develop an argument that evaluates the extent to which networks of exchange impacted the spread of the Black Death in the fourteenth century.


One of the reasons the Silk Road was so effective in aiding the spread of disease-causing microbes was that, despite its name, it wasn’t just a single route. The overland portion of the Silk Road was actually a set of paths that split and reconnected across the steppes of Central Asia, almost like the blood vessels of the human body or the veins in plant leaves. Few travelers covered the Silk Road’s expanse, which stretched for thousands of miles from East Asia to Turkey. Instead, caravans of traders and camels traveled back and forth between the local nodes, trading their wares for other goods, gold or money, and then returned home. In the process, the traders and their animals also passed along contagions, which spread slowly and gradually between points along the Silk Road. As bad luck would have it, the route also brought travelers in close proximity to what some researchers point to as a source of a particularly dangerous disease.