HIST 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Great American Interchange, The Columbian Exchange, New World Crops
9 Apr 2016
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04/08/2016 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Pangea, 300 million years ago, began to break 100 million years ago. Ice ages periodically lowered sea levels and connected land, movement of peoples, plants, animals (cid:1) (cid:1) Moments of contact despite isolation of the americas. North and south america separated for most of history until panama emerged- great american interchange, spread of plants, animals b/w zones (cid:1) Separate inventions of agriculture, diff crop plants developed in old and new world (cid:1) Old world (eurasia) agriculture heavily reliant on domesticated animals (cid:1) Old world humans and livestock share disease/germs- immunity to diseases which new world (americas) did not have (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) While native peoples would continue to eat food familiar to them. Europeans would only come to americas if they had a significant supply of. Successful transport of european agriculture aided in large presence of european people (cid:1)
