From the list below, choose a particular disease to follow from ancient times to 1914 or a particular epidemic event to compare and contrast with the Black Death.

Particular epidemics:

Plagues in the Bible

Athenian Plague 439-426 BC

Antonine Plague 165-190

Plague of Justinian 541-542

Sweating Sickness 1485-1551

Mexico Epidemic 1519-1520

Cocoliztli Epidemics 1545-1642

London Plague 1603

Great Plague of London 1665-1666

New England Epidemics 1616-1620

Great plague of Vienna 1679

Great Plague of 1738

Cholera Epidemic 1826-1837

"Russian/Asiatic" Flu Epidemic of 1889-1890

 

Particular diseases:

influenza

typhus

typhoid fever

yellow fever

smallpox

syphilis

measles

cholera

dysentery

malaria

polio

diptheria

bubonic plague

tuberculosis

leprosy

 

Link to the Research Plan

Link to HIST 101 syllabus



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