Middle AgesMedicine & Health Quarantine 1377Major Ragusa (Dubrovnik) isolates arriving ships for 30, later 40 days, the origin of the word quarantine. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Akkadian Empire → Neo-Assyrian Empire → Persian Empire founded → Persian Royal Road → Silk Road opens → Black Death → Quarantine Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentwwwnc.cdc.govEtymologia: Quarantine (CDC, Emerging Infectious Diseases) ↗Editor's pickDocumentbritannica.comWhen and where the world's first quarantine began (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookWilliam H. McNeillPlagues and Peoples ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeRagusa first quarantine history ↗Editor's pick