POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Columbian Exchange, Columbian Exchange, Spice Trade

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 196
• Professor: Bradley Bauerly

Document Summary

Spice trade slowly fed into and built off of transformations in political power: mixing together religion, politics comma and trade expanded the tributary mode of. Production: fed into and off of emerging nation state political competition. Spain and portugal competed over spice roots, with dutch and british influences competing as well later on. In 1492 columbus landed on hispaniola, modern day haiti. The 1494 treaty of tordesillas divided the atlantic between spain and portugal. From 1519 to 1522 magellan"s crew circumnavigated the globe, proving that it was spherical and that the oceans were connected, not landlocked. Invasive species were a byproduct of the columbian exchange. Changes in agriculture that come about because of the columbian exchange significantly altered global human populations. Cultural exchanges and the transfer of free and enslaved people were the most significant aspect of the columbian exchange.