History 150H Spring Semester 2007
Week 2 - January 16 - 18
Emerging Global Interrelations, Including Disease, pt.
2
Hans Holbein, The Dance of Death - three woodblock
prints from a set of 42
Reading requirement:
- John Aberth, The First Horseman: Disease in Human History,
pp. 76 - end.
Writing Assignment:
Due Sunday January 21, evening. What was the relationship between
these early "global interrelations" and disease? Do you see any modern
parallels?
Maps:
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
and Marco Polo
The World of Islam in the 14th
Century
Africa in the 14th Century
Europe in 1400
The Mongol Empires
Other
Links:
The Wellcome Trust (London)
Center for Disease Control (U.S.)
U.S.
Public Health
About
Rare Diseases
MSU Library - electronic resources
