HIS 2335 Lecture 2: Week 2 – The Columbian exchange.docx
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Americas played a significant physiological role in the overcoming of the. Global trade network: euros where not as successful in asia bc it belonged to the same gun powder era, ex. Ecological imperialism: desperate for spices and for land, property= new england, new france, new spain, the dutch east indies, tragically in the 21st century the implications and catastrophic play out post. Americans w euros goods: gold and silver circulate around the world, helps to supersede the spanish then the european economy. Iberian dominated the atlantic dominated by the portuguese and the spanish the. Bread and wine = communion ie. essential for religious ceremony. They had to make possible the types thing you consume at home to remind you of civilized background nostalgic reminders. Also brought imported animals farm animals: upset the ecological balanace = made the land a desert and planted back their own vegetations.