World History, Grades 9-12

Patterns of Interaction Video Series

Each video in the seriesPatterns of Interactionrelates to a

Global Impactfeature in the text. These eight exciting videos

show how cultural interactions have shaped our world and how

patterns in history continue to the present day.

Volume 1

Building Empires

The Rise of the Persians and the Inca

Watch the Persian and Incan empires expand and rule

other peoples, with unexpected results for both con-

quered and conquering cultures.

Trade Connects the World

Silk Roads and the Pacific Rim

Explore the legendary trade routes of the Silk Roads

and the modern trade in the Pacific Rim, and notice

how both affect much more than economics.

Volume 2

The Spread of Epidemic Disease

Bubonic Plague and Smallpox

Look for sweeping calamities and incredible conse-

quences when interacting peoples bring devastating

diseases to one another.

The Geography of Food

The Impact of Potatoes and Sugar

Notice how the introduction of new foods to a region pro-

vides security to some and spells disaster for others.

Volume 3

Struggling Toward Democracy

Revolutions in Latin America and South Africa

Examine the impact of democratic ideas that incite

people to join revolutions in 19th-century Latin

America and 20th-century South Africa.

Technology Transforms an Age

The Industrial and Electronic Revolutions

See how another kind of revolution, caused by

innovations in industry and communication, brings

change to the modern world.

Volume 4

Arming for War

Modern and Medieval Weapons

Watch how warring peoples’ competition in military

technology has resulted in a dangerous game of

developing bigger, better, and faster weaponry

throughout the ages.

Cultural Crossroads

The United States and the World

Observe how universal enjoyments like music, sports,

and fashion become instruments of cultural blending

worldwide.

PACIFICOCEAN

ATLANTICOCEAN

EUROPE

ASIA

MONGOLIA

INDIA

SOUTHWESTASIA

AFRICA

CHINA

Kaffa

Alexandria

Genoa

00 1,0002,000 Miles Kilometers

Route of the Plague

1

3 2

Western Europe

China, India, other Asians

20–25 million

25 million

= 4 million

The horse-riding Mongols likely carried infected fleas

andsupplies as they swooped rats in their food

into China.

1

The disease came with merchants along the

trade routes ofsouthern Asia, southwest Asia to^

Asia, and Africa.

2

In 1345–1346, aarmy besieged Kaffa. A Mongol

yearmerchants later, Italian returned to

Italy, unknowinglythe plague with them. bringing

3

The Bubonic Plague
Thethrough many areas bubonic plague, or Black of the world. Death, was It wiped out two-thirds of the population in some a killer disease that swept repeatedly
areas of China, destroyed populations of Muslimdecimated one-third of the European population. towns in Southwest Asia, and then

Disease SpreadsBlack rats carried fleas that were infested with a bacillus

called all had fleas andYersinia pestis lice.. Because In addition, medieval people threw people did not bathe, almost

their garbage andstreets became breeding grounds for sewage into the streets. These unsanitary more rats. The fleas

carried bythe bubonic rats leapt from plague with incredible person to speed. person, thus spreading

Symptoms of the Bubonic Plague• Painful swellings called buboes (BOO•bohz) in the lymph nodes,

• Sometimes purplish orparticularly those in the blackish spots armpits and groin on the skin


• Extremely high fever, chills, delirium, and in most cases, death
  Death Tolls, 1300s 1.HypothesizingHad people known
  the cause of the bubonic plague,what might they have done to slow
  its spread?See Skillbuilder Handbook, page R15.
  2.Comparingmight be compared to the bubonicWhat diseases of today
  plague? Why?
  400 Chapter 14

Patterns of Interactionvideo series

TheBubonic Spread of Epidemic Plague and Smallpox Disease:

The spread of disease hastragic result of cultures interacting with been a very

one another across place and time. Suchdiseases as smallpox and influenza have

killedwith the Aztecs—virtually destroying millions of people, sometimes—as

civilizations.

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