Skill Goal: Using the Web to expand on your textbook's account of a subject
Subject: The science of the plague

Epidemic disease has played an important role in human history, from the Plague of Athens, to the smallpox epidemics in the Americas, to AIDS today.

• Try to find on the Web additional information about the Great Plague and its later recurrences in Europe
• Try to find on the Web basic information about the smallpox epidemics that hit the native peoples of the Americas
• Try to find on the Web statistics about the current state of the AIDS epidemic

Write up a discussion of your findings. Make sure to explain:

• How you found the sites in question
• Whether you think historians give enough attention to the impact of disease in changing the course of history