Abstract
Covid-19 is the biggest pandemic to hit humanity in the last hundred years and is a whole new experience for most of us. Why we are so surprised and in many ways unprepared for outbreak of global disease? The practical experience of modern humanity with such a danger has disappeared from our living memory.
And we have something to remember. A look back at pandemics can offer us lessons not only about how our ancestors did they struggled with disease, but also how they renewed and reformed their society after the disease subsided.