Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. epidemics
6. plagues

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for an ailment. Although often translated as smallpox, it can be used to refer to any widespread plague or pestilence. It is often the designation for the infectious illnessess that spread in Indigenous communities in Mesoamerica from contact with Europeans in the sixteenth century.