Day 64 - The last Clicker Quiz

Today in WHAP we took a Clicker Quiz and some notes.

First, we started off class when the bell rang. Yeah, the bell actually rang for the first time in a long time. Exciting stuff.

We immediately jumped into some notes over the Bubonic Plague or The Black Death, as some like to call it. 

So first of all, the plague was a pandemic and not an epidemic, the difference being that a pandemic is a disease outbreak that effects multiple regions or even continents, whereas an epidemic is mainly in a small area.

We then went into information over emperor Justinian of the Byzantines, and how he made a code, Justinian's code, which was a revision of the current Roman rules and is still in effect today. He also built the Hagia Sofia.

One of the most important lessons to be taken away from class, as it was mentioned in the notes and in the CQ was that history can be moved by other factors than humans. Often times this is in reference in disease.

We continued talking about the Mongols, going over how they somehow had a genetic resistance to the plague, and made good carriers for the disease. It may not be historically accurate that they would toss plague victims into cities they attacked, but if that helps you comprehend their ferociousness and savagery then by all means...

Another important detail would be how the subsistence level economy in the dark ages, a localistic and land-based society, turned into a market/commercial and money-based society. Someone paralleled with this is how once the Mongol empire shuts down due to disease, the Sea Roads become more popular and then the silk road trade dies down.

After this, we took the quiz, no bonus today unfortunately.

With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Have a great weekend of studying WHAP/Chemistry!