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WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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What are TWO reasons that John Green says that war and disease go together?
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Armies carry diseases with them
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Food shortages caused by war make people more vulnerable to diseases
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Biological warfare is often used
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The sadness of war makes people more vulnerable to disease
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greece was relatively disease-free because of its climate and also the isolated nature of city-states; but the more the cities became involved in trade, the more susceptible to epidemics they were. The best example of this was the plague that struck Athens in 430 and 429 B.C.E. during the Peloponnesian War.
Detailed explanation-2: -The bubonic plague-named the Black Death by later historians-was caused by the yersinia pestis bacteria, which lived in rodent populations and was spread by fleas that had bitten infected animals.
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