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Wednesday - World History
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wandering-stone.livejournal.comToday, class was being held back in Jones' office. As usual, there was an assortment of breakfast goods and tea.
"Those of you who may be from Earth may be familiar with a certain nursery rhyme. Specifically Ring-Around-The-Rosie," Jones began. "Today children recite it while holding hands in a circle before pretending to fall to the ground. The nursery rhyme has a rather grim origination of which you may not be aware."
"I'm speaking of an event in human history known as the Black Death. It was a disease which killed millions of people throughout Asia, Europe and Africa in a mere seven year span. Death tolls have been widely differed, but some counts go as high as 200 million people. The disease was carried by fleas which infected users. Widespread trade routes carried this disease far and wide eliminating a vast amount of humanity. To combat this disease, houses,ships and corpses were burned. A vaccine for this disease wouldn't come to fruition until hundreds of years later. If this had happened at another time in human development, it may have very well been an extinction event much like the dinosaurs before you."
Jones then turned on a monitor to play the very familiar nursery rhyme. "The first like of the nursery rhyme refers to the rash infected people would receive. It would form a circle with something resembling a flower in the center. The reference to a pocketful of posies refers to the flowers people would carry in their pocket in order to hide the smell of dead bodies which were often left on the street. References to ashes and falling down refer to houses, ships and others which were burned to prevent the outbreak from spreading and the eventual destruction of small towns and cities due to the disease."
Jones turned off the monitor before continuing. "Over the centuries the simple rhyme is now a cheerful game for children to play. As part of our exercise today, I would like to you to share a story or item from the present day which has it's roots in history that one might not be aware of."
"Those of you who may be from Earth may be familiar with a certain nursery rhyme. Specifically Ring-Around-The-Rosie," Jones began. "Today children recite it while holding hands in a circle before pretending to fall to the ground. The nursery rhyme has a rather grim origination of which you may not be aware."
"I'm speaking of an event in human history known as the Black Death. It was a disease which killed millions of people throughout Asia, Europe and Africa in a mere seven year span. Death tolls have been widely differed, but some counts go as high as 200 million people. The disease was carried by fleas which infected users. Widespread trade routes carried this disease far and wide eliminating a vast amount of humanity. To combat this disease, houses,ships and corpses were burned. A vaccine for this disease wouldn't come to fruition until hundreds of years later. If this had happened at another time in human development, it may have very well been an extinction event much like the dinosaurs before you."
Jones then turned on a monitor to play the very familiar nursery rhyme. "The first like of the nursery rhyme refers to the rash infected people would receive. It would form a circle with something resembling a flower in the center. The reference to a pocketful of posies refers to the flowers people would carry in their pocket in order to hide the smell of dead bodies which were often left on the street. References to ashes and falling down refer to houses, ships and others which were burned to prevent the outbreak from spreading and the eventual destruction of small towns and cities due to the disease."
Jones turned off the monitor before continuing. "Over the centuries the simple rhyme is now a cheerful game for children to play. As part of our exercise today, I would like to you to share a story or item from the present day which has it's roots in history that one might not be aware of."
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