GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are TWO reasons that historians haven’t studied diseases much? Because ____
A
Diseases are part of science, not history
B
Diseases are NOT an example of people changing history (human agency)
C
Diseases have been seen as signs of divine will or wrath
D
Diseases have not been seen as important enough to study
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It is not clear what made the bubonic plague die down. Some scholars have argued that cold weather killed the disease-carrying fleas, but that would not have interrupted the spread by the respiratory route, Dr. Snowden noted. Or perhaps it was a change in the rats.

Detailed explanation-2: -The second pandemic of bubonic plague was active in Europe from 1347, the beginning of the Black Death, until 1750.

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