I, ___________________________________________ am the Historian on the

____________________ Team

Questions to answer: Write/type out all answers in complete sentences. Indicate the source of your information for each question.

1. When was evidence of smallpox disease in humans first recorded?

2. What historical evidence is there that the Egyptians suffered from the disease?

3. What historical evidence is there that the Chinese suffered from the disease?

4. When did the disease first appear in the United States? (new world)

5. Why did the settlers at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 encounter very few Indians?

6. How were the Aztec Indians affected by smallpox?

7. What famous people died of smallpox throughout the ages?

8. During what important event might Abraham Lincoln have been affected by smallpox?

9. How did Sir Jeffrey Amherst in 1763, suggest smallpox be used to fight the Indians?

10. Why is this (#9) considered a kind of biological warfare?

Visual Presentation: Use the information you gathered to answer your questions as well as other information from your research, and prepare a timeline of the History of Smallpox.