Pandemics & epidemics
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Pandemics & epidemics
Order these outbreaks by the year they began. Place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.
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release years and dates
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How Pandemics & epidemics is played
Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.
This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.
What's in the deck
28 of the 28 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.
- Antonine Plague Smallpox or measles swept the Roman Empire
- Plague of Cyprian Ravaged the Roman Empire during a crisis
- Plague of Justinian Struck the Byzantine Empire, tens of millions dead
- Black Death Killed a third of Europe
- Italian Plague Devastated northern Italian cities
- Great Plague of London Killed roughly a quarter of London
- Great Plague of Marseille Last major French bubonic outbreak
- Russian Plague Deadly outbreak centered on Moscow
- First cholera pandemic Spread from the Ganges delta across Asia
- Second cholera pandemic Reached Europe and North America
- Third cholera pandemic Deadliest cholera wave of the century
- Third plague pandemic Bubonic plague from Yunnan, China
- Fourth cholera pandemic Spread along trade and pilgrimage routes
- Fifth cholera pandemic Hit Europe, Asia, and South America
- Russian flu Early global influenza pandemic
- Sixth cholera pandemic Heavy toll across India and the Middle East
- Spanish flu Influenza killed tens of millions worldwide
- Asian flu H2N2 influenza emerged in East Asia
- Seventh cholera pandemic Began in Indonesia, still ongoing
- Hong Kong flu H3N2 influenza pandemic
- HIV/AIDS Global epidemic recognized among cases in the US
- SARS Coronavirus outbreak from southern China
- Swine flu H1N1 pandemic emerged in Mexico
- MERS Coronavirus first identified in Saudi Arabia
- West African Ebola epidemic Largest Ebola outbreak in history
- Zika virus epidemic Spread through the Americas via mosquitoes
- COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic emerged in Wuhan
- Mpox outbreak Global spread of the virus formerly called monkeypox
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