HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Print Culture, Columbian Exchange, Syncretism
Document Summary
Circulation of goods and people in and around the atlantic world after columbus. Predominant goods: sugar important to focus on. Becomes obsession with european consumers: rice. Exchange isn"t just products and people but also diseases. Syphilis in exchange for smallpox that spaniards gave to indigenous people, they gave the spaniards syphilis. Sexual relations between indigenous people and spaniards: new livestock. Exchange in addition to conquest: potato. Keeps europe alive for most of the 16th and 17th century. High calories which helps keep poor people alive: tobacco, cacao. Price revolution 1500-1650: inflation of close to 100, a lot of people with a lot of money were chasing scarce goods. Economic expansion from the trade that results with the americas. Joint-stock companies 1600: risk sharing, will pool resources (usually just very wealthy, then get the benefits split up. English east india company; dutch east india company: most times are funded by the crown and so some has to go back to gov.
