HIST1011 Lecture Notes - Pedro Menéndez De Avilés, Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, Atlantic World
10 Mar 2014
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Human"s homeostasis has been human"s conscious concern. Human"s manmade problem has also been a concern. History of human thought of the environment. Climate change has been a recent modern phenomenon. History: dam breakage in canada caused trillions and trillions of water from the north to the atlantic ocean. It changed the gulf stream and a flower, dryas octopala, which lived in cold atmospheres, were found all over the north. Vocab: the concept, the biological old regime. : when the old regime depended on solar energy. population: low on food production resulted in a low population. There were cities but they were small. agriculture: the amount of food they could produce was very low. Most communities could produce very little or no surplus. Farmers didn"t use horses because it was expensive and horses eat a lot. Farmers then had a hard time getting access to manure for soil. it took 8 europeans for feed 10 people.
