HIST1087 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Columbian Exchange, Theobroma Cacao, Mesoamerica
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After wwii - history of environment, change in food production, economic history. Columbian exchange had been taken tacitly, no appreciation for the magnitude of the change. Exchange has had deep consequences, more we study the more apparent this becomes. Chocolate in europe incorporated into tableware make it transportable process of consuming chocolate is transformed, metal vessels were found to be the appropriate vessel of consuming the good cultural change and syncretism. Neo-europe (exam word) ex: america, canada europeans settled here in large numbers, brought things with them extensions of the european biological system. Quinoa only recently moved only a few go global - process of that happening is often hidden from view. Peanut not staple but important originally domesticated in south america, culturaly central in peru now produced in places that had no access to them in the early modern period.
