POL326Y1 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Jared Diamond, American Civil War
20 Feb 2014
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Caribbean discovered columbus" ships on their shore and transformed by that experience: search by european power holders in search for places rich enough the exploit and weak enough to conquer, portugal, successive, started in africa. But they didn"t find much gold, spices, or tea that was of interest. What he meant was that european standards of hygiene were lower. There were much more crowded and large cities which lacked sewage. Europeans had much more resistance to disease because of this compared to the western hemisphere. There were no domesticated animals, so that was very limited: somewhere between 85-95% of the western population dropped dead when in contact to the european settlers, portuguese and spanish used this as a blank slate. Us of the unequal treatment of the colonial system. Unilateralism: morgan though argued allowed the us to protect itself by off shore balancing. Make sure that no one country comes to dominate western europe.
