HIST 2250 Chapter : The Fortunate Isles.docx
22 Feb 2012
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The europeans brought with them fellow life forms, their extended family of plants, animals, and microlife. Descendents, most of them, or organisms that humans domesticated or that had first adapted to living with humans. The europeans crossed the waters to the canaries, as to the azores and madeiras, with a scaled-down, simplified version or the biota of western europe, in this case of mediterranean littoral. The organisms that had worked on such mediterranean islands as crete, sicily, and majorca did so in the. Soldiers on horseback played a vital role in the conquest of the last 2 of the canaries to fall. Christian chroniclers paid much less attention to the other members of the portmanteau biota than to horses. Abreau de galindo reported that a few years before the conquest of canary islands, births exceeded death rates. Majorcans, who came early to the island, brought the fig tree or perhaps a new variety of fig tree with them.
