SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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What are TWO reasons that historians haven’t studied diseases much? Because ____
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Diseases are part of science, not history
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Diseases are NOT an example of people changing history (human agency)
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Diseases have been seen as signs of divine will or wrath
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Diseases have not been seen as important enough to study
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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 eventual weakening of the pandemic was likely due to the practice of quarantining infected people that originated in Venice in the 15th century and is with us to this day. Improved sanitation, personal hygiene, and medical practices also played a role in ultimately slowing the plague’s terror march.
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