ENV S 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Free Trade, Sweet Potato, Fiat Money
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Question: how have pacific journeys shaped the anthropocene? (galleon trade) Key concepts: fiat vs. commodity money, ming dynasty, qing dynasty, potasi, huancavelica, internal migrations and displacement, deforestation. Columbus is not the same thing as columbian exchange, holocene, or anthropocene. Not just a local story but case study of commodification of nature on a global scale with consequences in many places across centuries. What are some of the important factors that facilitated the worldwide trade of the. Challenges in trade have been occurring for a long long time. Case study: official and critical interpretation of zheng he. Muslim in china that was a war captive. Joined the ming court as a bureaucrat and soldier. Willing to take risks and is smart. Served as a leader of a maritime expedition, from early 1400 to early 1430 of chinese vessel that traveled around the middle east and arrived in the south eastern part of.
