What did pre-modern civilizations with no real healthcare tech levers do in pandemics?
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“Die” is not actually an answer. Anyone know how they died? March the sick out of town? Shop them into the forest? Set them adrift on canoes?
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Without an understanding of modern medicine, pandemics were viewed through the lens of magic or retribution of the gods. Survivors often sought retribution against neighboring tribes.
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how towns self isolated and died to protect neighboring villages and towns during the black death in the UK
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They took care of their sick, cleaned, did rituals, and moved out of the area if they could. They were more resigned to early death, and, before germ theory, they didn't really focus on individual infections. Kentucky fired cannons to scare away the cholera in the "bad air."
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"Died" would be a good answer to "what" if you'd said "pre-civilized."
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@vgr - here’s a great article about the Black Death pandemic. To answer your q - people fled, spreading the disease..https://www.historytoday.com/archive/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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To determine that you would need to identify a epidemic pathogen that made its presence detectable in the palaeoarchaeological record so that you could observe that these were 'their' burial practices at such times.
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Isolate the sick is the closest there is to a common answer. Lepers' colonies etc. Supply of food/water depending on wealth and benevolence of community. 'Sacrifice' of those that tended to the sick/chikdren died too (e.g. women in India, 1918).
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Been reading how Romans handled disease. It seems they didn't do to well on that end. https://www.ancient.eu/Antonine_Plague/ … but hard to say exactly what they did due to lack of archaeological dig sites https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/plagues-roman-empire/473862/ … Might get this book: https://aeon.co/ideas/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-the-fall-of-rome … TL;DR: they died.
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Big list of epidemics thru history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics … Hard to guess at stuff like Native Americans and Vikings because of a lack of written account.
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