HIST 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Catalan Atlas, Musa I Of Mali, Columbian Exchange
31 Oct 2016
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Worldwide redistribution of plants, animals, and diseases that resulted from the initial contacts between europeans and american indians . Americas to europe pumpkins, turkeys, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, peppers, vanilla. Europe to americas disease, livestock, grains, peaches, sugar cane, onions, citrus fruits. Ecological imperialism bringing over different plants and animals to the new world and implanting them into everyday life. Virgin soil epidemics are those in which the population at risk have had no previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore immunologically almost defenseless . Encounter disease and body sends bunch of things to kill pathogen. Creates memory for future to fight off disease (body adapts) Europeans over generations became more immune to certain disease. Can trace pathway of disease and where it spreads. Can use slave trade to help track where disease comes from. 1375 gift from spanish prince to king charles of france. Charles over watching kingdom in ruins during a civil war.
