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Map depicts the routes and years that the "Black Death" also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. ... The plague created religious, social and economic…

The principal street in the fair, Nijni-Novgorod, Russia

In this map we get a global view, as it was a pandemic that spread across all of the world. We see places where the spread was far more dense than other locations. For example we see that all of Europe had been affected at one point or another. We…

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You know, I remember back when I barely thought about pandemics and epidemics or really any kind of -demics. But today, we are faced with it constantly. And understanding that these…

“Cholera epidemics regularly spread up the Volga from Astrakhan, most devastatingly in 1892 and 1893 when the disease ravaged the working population of the fair. “
Description of Cholera entering Niznhy Novgorod in 1892 from Melnikov Ocherki,…

French map of the area immediately surrounding the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1900. The author identifies the natural resource locations in comparison to the limited survey work done (e.g., hydrographic, topograhpic, geologic). In combination with the…

This map shows the spread of Cholera within European Russia. The main river systems are shown and labeled, and it is from this that we can see that the first incursion into European Russia happened in the lower stretches of the Don and Volga Rivers.…