Timeblazers: The Great Stink

Man holding a wooden bucket. Caption: helped spread a terrible plague

Timeblazers Sam and Jen look back at the squalid ways of old. For thousands of years people dumped garbage wherever they liked; food scraps were simply tossed onto the floor; and, in medieval times, garbage and human waste went right into the castle moat. All that garbage attracted the rats, which, in turn, spread a terrible disease called The Plague, The Black Death, or the Bubonic Plague.

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  • Timeblazers: The Great Stink

    Type:
    Video
    Format:
    Streaming
    Accommodations:
    English Audio Descriptions - Visual, English Captions - Auditory
    Languages:
    English
    License:
    DCMP Membership
    Author:
    Chip Taylor Communications
    Length:
    25 minutes