Disease!

: World History 2 Crash Course #203

Available at https://youtu.be/1PLBmUVYYeg or just youtube/google “Crash Course World History 2 203”

1. Why hasn’t the study of history focused much on

diseases?

2. Humans first appeared in tropical regions in

____________,
which are home to a wide variety of
____________________,
and those parasites played a role in keeping human
populations
really low for a long time.

3. There is a decent correlation between ______ and disease. ____________ tended to

carry it along with them, and ______________________________ and displacements
made civilians more likely to get sick.

4. Nothing spreads disease quite like __________.

5. The Black Death plague, which struck _____________ in the mid-fourteen century,
originated in ________ that came from ________, and can be found throughout the
world, even in western U.S. today. The death rate from the plague was incredibly high;
perhaps _______ of people living in Europe died.

a. How did the plague affect world history? Try to list at least four ways.

b. The Black Death looms larger in our Eurocentric imaginations, but in terms of
devastation and human suffering, it pales in comparison to the ________________
that accompanied the ________________________________________________.

i. _____________________ cultures were largely free of disease until the

arrival of Europeans. Perhaps ______ of native populations of the Americas
may have perished.

ii. At the same time that diseases were destroying

indigenous social orders, Europe’s population
was growing, thus creating more pressure to
______________ the Americas, Asia, Africa,
and eventually .
6. What have been some of the improvements in science and
medicine to combat disease?