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This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helpedend the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later theCarthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseasespresent in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survivaleither avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. Thebook will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in thechain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient worldand that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently thecase.
List of contents
Foreword by Professor CraigMolgaard, BA, MPH, PHD.- Introduction..- Chapter 1: Common Diseases inAncient Times..- Chapter 2: How Disease Affected theHistory of the Egyptian Empire..- Chapter 3: How Disease Affected theHistory of the Hittite Empire..- Chapter 4: How Disease Affected theEnd of the Bronze Age..- Chapter 5: How Disease Affected theHistory of Ancient Carthage..- Conclusion.- Plague Prayers of King Mursili II..-About the Author.
About the author
Philip Norrie is a family physician in Sydney, Australia
and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the Medical Faculty at the University of New
South Wales, Australia. His main interest is medical history with the role of infectious
disease epidemics on history and the history of wine as a medicine for the past
5,000 years.
Summary
This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped
end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the
Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases
present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival
either avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. The
book will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the
chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world
and that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently the
case.
