HTST 465 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Upland South, Tuberculosis
9 Oct 2016
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A part of north america with a certain climate, naturalness. Can be defined in different ways, ex: by its environment. They get more rain than we do, 3 times as wet rich soil, not the richest but not rocky. A place where much off the land is good for farming and plant life. Now the problem is to stop its growth. Flip side; hot humid environment is tough for humans, hard on the body. Textbook starts with land ridge; brief covering of people of the earliest region. Moving near the middle is the growth of cotton emergence of a theme: specialty cash crops ( difficult for europeans to grow but introduced to the american south sugar; requires no frost. Highly valuable the south is an area of a certain kind of exploitation the darker sports are tobacco yellow: corn and wheat, grain growing areas grain grows in europe too but not corn large farms making profit.
