DEVS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arms Race, Sweet Potato, Sugarcane
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Antecedents to diasporas: undertsnading reasons for european expansion, atlantic world as an ecosystem. Economic model on single crop cultivation begins. Sugar cane, then wine (trade products in england: early contacts. 1100 years later, western europeans were established as the colonisers in the holy land". Modern europeans arrived between 60-80 000 years ago. Denisova-precursor to modern humans and neanderthals: mixed with humans, modern europeans have had a number of ancestors in their development. Sweet potato: native to south america, also found in australia and newzeland, no one knows how they got there. Over next seven centuries, europeans were dominated by mediteraanean cultures, governed by greco-roman institutions and were economically exploited, also was converted to christianity. Resources were exploited, caused europe to change. Through romanization, europeans were subjected to rule by foreigners. As europeans became more christianized, the roman empire also changed due to the wave of islam. Seventh century changed religiously in part of north africa.