History 2812E Lecture Notes - Gangrene, Humorism, Dementia
7 Dec 2012
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1st paragraph 3 points (worth 6 marks) Minimum two lectures answers. (info from two lectures) * this newness is in doubt from scholars: the columbian exchange thesis. * in this period ingenious populations had a demographic catastrophe due to the biological exchange. * disease if not the may key point is a major contributing factor. *old world benefits from new plants, new animals and less disease in the exchange. * this according to crosby syphilis was brought from the new world to the old world. They argue that they do not see accounts recorded until. 1490s in italy. (outbreaks during war) france is invading italy in 1494-1495. You have mass groups of men on the move. They are dirty, ill-disciplined, came from different places and meet up with each other exchange disease and when the war is over they go back to their different homes.
