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With a proper understanding on how plagues spread, early individuals unknowingly helped propagate the pandemic.

At times the Black Death was used to weaponize the plagues, using dead victims to infect others.

Black Death can be triggered or comprised of various plagues .

Three major pandemics have rocked the globe, the Justinian Plague, The Black Death and The Bubonic Plague from China. Today modern travel makes plagues much easier to spread.

The first great plague since the fall of the Roman Empire, fleas carried it killing a third of Europe.

From women’s rights to a quickening of everyday society, the industrial revolution created the modern world as we know it today.

Almost every female adult and child capable would use a spinning wheel to produce thread and fabric and then cream clothing for the family and the colonial military at the time of the revolution.

Colonists learned what they could eat and drink as time went on, spices , many root vegetables, apples and pears, ale and hard cider

The native Americans schooled the early colonists down the coast how to grow, and what type of dishes to make with corn.

Early colonists arriving in the new world did not find riches in the earth such as metals, but riches of plenty food, roaming animals, nuts, tree sap, fields for crops and fish and shellfish in the sea and rivers.

This episode lays out the procedures of serving of meals, etiquette, accoutrements on the table and how all of this changed from the mid-16th - through the early twentieth century.

This episode describes colonial; hearths, cooking utensils, heating and an early romance of where the center of colonial life existed in the home’s interior.

From various forms of candle making materials, natural scents such as the Bayberry bush to accent candles, to oil and tallow, to various types of fire starters, night light in colonial times took time and skill to produce and was expensive.

Roof-lines and interior decorations proceed as the century went on.

From living in dug-out caves to thatched roof houses, early colonial settlers brought skill sets and certain styles from the home-lands.