NYSED Global History and Geography Online Resource Guide

Unit 3

 

Core Curriculum

Essential Questions

Focus Questions

Vocabulary

Scholarship

Helpful Hints

Resources for Teachers
(Books/Articles,
Visuals/Music)

Visuals

Learning Experience(s)

Assessments

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E. Social, economic, and political impacts of the plague on Eurasia and Africa

Essential Questions

• What impact do regional and global trade networks have on world cultures?
• How are economic systems structured to meet the needs and wants of different societies?
• What defines a turning point?

Focus Questions

• What was bubonic plague and what were its origins?
• How long did it take the populations of Afro-Eurasia to recover to pre-plague levels?
• What was the relationship between the plague and the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe?

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Vocabulary

Black Death fleas
bubonic plague pandemic
buboes rats
demographic consequence social upheaval
epidemic

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Scholarship

Christian, David and William H. McNeill. 2004. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. Berkley: University of California Press.
 

Diamond, Jared. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
 

Landes, David S. 1998. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
 

McNeill, J.R. and William H. McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of World History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

 

McNeill, William H. 1998. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press

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Helpful Hints

• Have students explore the impact of the plague throughout Afro-Eurasia, not just in Europe.
• Have students trace and discuss the origins and spread of the plague on a map of Afro-Eurasia.
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Have students explore eyewitness accounts of the plague.
• Have students examine contemporary visuals that depict the impact of the plague.

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Resources for Teachers (Books/Articles, Visuals/Music)

Dols, Michael W. 1977. The Black Death in the Middle East. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
 

Kelly, John. 2005. The Great Morality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of all Time. New York: Harper Perennial.
 

Khaldun, Ibn. Franz Rosenthal, trans. 1958.The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. London: Routledge abd Kegan Paul.

 

Smith, Bonnie, ed. 2004-05.  Women's History in Global Perspective.  Champaign Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
 

Ziegler, Philip. 1971. The Black Death. New York: Harper/Torchbooks.

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Visuals

Killing of Dogs to Lessen the Spread of the Plague

Killing of Dogs to Lessen the Spread of the Plague

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Graunt/pictures/dogs.html

 
Charts
 

Historians have recorded the following incidents in Europe

  1300-1399    27    epidemics

 1400-1499    28    epidemics
 1500-1599    21    epidemics
 1600-1699    18    epidemics
 1700-1799    32    epidemics
 1800-1867    33    epidemics

 While some of these outbreaks were not very serious, others were disastrous. The following mortalities demonstrate vividly the seriousness of this human tragedy.

 Danzig    1427    80,000
 Paris     1466    40,000
 Moscow    1570   200,000
 Lyons     1572    50,000
 Venice    1576    70,000
 London    1603    38,000
 Egypt     1603 1,000,000
 London    1625    35,417
 Naples    1656   300,000
 Amsterdam 1663    50,000
 London    1665    68,596

 Records for the major outbreak in 1346-1350 are scarce. People had other things on their minds!

Click here for a PDF version of this chart.

  
 
map of how the plague spread

http://history.missouristate.edu/jchuchiak/HST 101--Lecture 22--
     Maps_of_the_spread_of_the_plague.htm
 
map of plague spreading

MAPS OF THE SPREAD OF THE PLAGUE
http://history.missouristate.edu/jchuchiak/HST%20101--Lecture%2022--Maps_of_the_spread_of_the_plague.htm

 

Bubonic Plague

http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture29b.html  

http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/centrefooddrink/
     publications/articles/martindietfortheplague0paper.html

http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Stuarts/images/plaguedoctor.png
 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePagLink=toah_1

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Learning Experience(s)

The Path of the Black Death

Available in PDF, HTML, WORD

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Assessments

Editor's Note: All state examinations are aligned to the New York State Learning Standards for Social Studies and Social Studies Resource Guide with Core Curriculum. The chart below specifies where these alignments have occurred (from June 2000 to the present).

Core Curriculum: Global History and Geography Regents:
E. Social, economic, and political impacts of the plague on Eurasia and Africa

January 2002 Thematic, Geography

August 2004 DBQ, Epidemics

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