Where the Black Death fits in History | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post on my blog. After completing independent tasks in Chemicals and Chaos, we move on to the new topic, 'Black Death'. I got a textbook about 'Epidemics Through Time', where we had to do each chapter and each activity. The first chapter was 'Rap on with History', we had to read a timeline which had all main events including the 'Black Death'.

After we had to choose ten events from the timeline, including the Black Death, and we had to make our own mini timeline, and colour code the events;

• Red - exploration and travel
• Blue - loss of life
• Green - religion
• Yellow - fighting
• Orange - political

Here is my timeline.

Facts of the 10 Events

1. 100 Years' War - It's really not a hundred-year war, it's really 116 years; it would be a '116 Years' War
2. Black Death (Europe) - It had an estimate to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population.
3. Captain Cook arrives in New Zealand - He arrived in Zealand on 6 October 1769 and landed at Poverty Bay two days later.
4. Battle of Waterloo - It was fought near Waterloo in Belgium, part of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands at that time.
5. Treaty of Waitangi - It was first signed on 6 February 1840 and it was located in Waitangi.
6. American Civil War - It was a civil war in the United States from 1861-1865. The first battle was the Battle of Fort Sumter and the final battle was the Battle of Palmito Ranch.
7. Influenza Epidemic - The Spanish Flu was an epidemic from February 1918 to April 1920. I infected 500 million people, around a third of the world's population, in four successive waves.
8. World War I - It was a war from 1914-1918; it started after the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand by South Slav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on 28 June 1918.
9. World War II - It was a war from 1935-1945. The majority of the world's countries, including the great powers, formed to two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis.
10. First Person on the Moon - Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon on 20 July 1969 after landing the Apollo 11.

Why are we studying this?

Chemicals and Chaos is a hurumanu including Chemistry (Chemicals) and Social Studies (Chaos); Chaos is about chaotic events around the world both in the past and present. Currently, we are learning about the Black Death. I think that we are studying the Black Death because it is one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.