GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Columbian Exchange, African Diaspora, Cassava
31 Aug 2016
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Colonization: establishment, maintenance, and domination over a nation and its people. Thus, creating a political and economic domination and dependency between the dominant and the dependent. Imperialism: the process of establishing economic and trading domination over another nation. Neocolonialism: is the process by rich, powerful, developed state use economic, political, or other informal means to exert pressure on poor, less powerful, underdeveloped states. Two super powers come to the pope: role of the church, decided which language: spanish or portuguese, established peace which allowed for expansionism and growth. The columbian exchange is the sharing of cultures that transformed the lives of not just two continents but the entire world. Its a two-way process with people, goods, and ideas moving back and forth. New g"s: goods, germs, guns, gender, government, globalization, geography, genocide, grains. Asian and african plants were introduced such as bananas, plantains, sugarcane, and rice.
