ANTHROP 2U03 Chapter 2: Pandemics and epidemics
16 Jul 2018
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The conventional picture of the history of plague divides it into three long pandemics: Mediterranean and europe --> c. 541 - 750 a. Initial major epidemics; the "plague of justinian" 541 - 544. Initial major epidemics: the "black death" 1347 - 52. Initial major epidemics: india, china, 1894 - 1922. Pandemic (procopius): a pestilence by which the whole human race came near to being annihilated. With the black death, plague came into the black sea from asia and moved into the. Reached sicily in 1347 and had reached most of europe and n. africa and the. Middle east by 1352, where it persisted for centuries. The third plague came in from southwest china, causing outbreaks there and in india. Unsure about the plague in central asia and africa. The plague may have disappeared btwn the second and third pandemic. Mcneill: global exchange of infections over the centuries btwn widely dispersed pools of disease.
