HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Movable Type, Community Bulletin Board, Ninety-Five Theses

• School: Ball State University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 150
• Professor: Robert Hall I I

Document Summary

Alfred cosby- wrote a book, about the exchange of diseases, plants, and animals. Some of the exchanged crops in indiana brought from the columbian exchange were soybeans from asia and corn from. Dandelions and wheat are from the old world brought into the new world. There were no major infectious epidemics in n&s america before the whites came. Smallpox was huge, when new world is exposed to it, many children and adults are killed. Native american population dropped in mexico from 25 million to 2 million. Syphilis outbreak, a couple of years after 1492 went global very fast came and spread from sailors. Horses were native to america. old world animals: horses, pigs, food etc sheep goats old world crops: wheat, olives, grapes guinea pig was domesticated as a source of food. Reformation can be traced back to the dutchy of saxony. Martin luther. was not rich or famous, just a member of clergy. taught theology at university.