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columbian exchange by https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0 en-us 2017-11-01 04:26:53 UTC 2017-11-01 08:43:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Diseases lim42384 https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0/wish/202381620 - Europe, Africa, & Asia to the Americas -- diseases: smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, whooping, cough
- "I already learned about the “great dying” among the native population of the Americas due to their lack of resistance to European diseases."
- "The historian Robert McCaa agrees that “a demographic disaster occurred and that epidemic disease was a dominant factor.” However, McCaa adds that it was more than just disease that had such a cata-strophic impact on these people."
- "...need to remember the “massive harsh treatment (forced migration, enslavement, abusive labor demand, and exorbitant tribute payments) and ecological devastation accompanying Spanish colonization.”
- "...combination of disease, harsh treatment and the decimation of their food sources that led to an almost 55 percent decline in the native people living in Mexico."
https://school.bighistoryproject.com/pages/console#media/04fb2fd6-a184-4723-acd0-89a015abc6c1
- "Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity."
- "On their return home, European sailors brought syphilis to Europe."
- "...the cultivation of financially lucrative crops in the Americas, along with the devastation of native populations from disease, resulted in a demand for labor that was met with the abduction and forced movement of over 12 million Africans during et with the abduction and forced movement of over 12 million Africans during the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries"
http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~nq3/NANCYS_Yale_Website/resources/papers/NunnQianJEP.pdf
- "they had no domesticated animals, the original source of human diseases such as smallpox and measles."
"...as they passed from Siberia to North America, the first Americans had spent many years in
extreme cold, which eliminated many of the disease-causing agents that might have traveled with them."
- "...first Americans and their descendants, perhaps 40 million to 60 million strong by 1492, enjoyed freedom from most of the infectious diseases that plagued populations in Afro-Eurasia for millennia."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9FDNEPldjZyVEYwenIwbjBteWs/view

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Within 20 years of Columbus’ last voyage, maize had established itself
in North Africa and perhaps in Spain. It spread to Egypt, where it became a staple in the
Nile Delta,
Islam and Christianity spread with empires, trade, and migration.
http://aida.wss.yale.edu/~nq3/NANCYS_Yale_Website/resources/papers/NunnQianJEP.pdf
Today, cocaine is one of the most highly traded illegal substances in the world.
During the Incan Empire, they were chewed during
religious rituals
Early Spanish settlers adopted this practice and brought it back
to Europe.

]]> 2017-11-01 04:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0/wish/202381762 People johnsonwan770831 https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0/wish/202381788 -population of the Americas declined rapidly once the Europeans came because of the disease they brought over
-population in Europe and Asia flourished with their new wealth from the Americas and technological developments
-with a smaller, weaker population, the Native Americans were easier to control and manipulate
- "it made the world more unequal because some populations were better able to

take advantage of the new connections than others"

-Europeans were able to conquer the Americas and take slaves or exploit them for their gold

https://school.bighistoryproject.com/pages/console#media/04fb2fd6-a184-4723-acd0-89a015abc6c1

]]> 2017-11-01 04:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0/wish/202381788 Plants and Animals cho771517 https://padlet.com/johnsonwan770831/x9527inngeq0/wish/202382367 "Things that moved west:

From Afro-Eurasia to the Americas
Wheat

Barley, oats
Rice

Sugarcane

Olives

Peaches, pears, grapes

Okra, cabbage, spinach, turnips

Cabbage

Spinach

Turnips

Mustard

Coffee

Cattle

Pigs

Sheep

Horses

Goats

Chickens

Dogs (bigger and fiercer than American)

Honeybees

"Things that moved east:

From the Americas to Afro-Eurasia"
Maize (corn)

Potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Cassava (manioc)

Vanilla

Peanuts

Tobacco

Beans (several types)

Squash

Tomatoes

Chili peppers

Cocoa

Pineapple

Turkeys" (Big History Project Ch 8 Pg. 2)

"horses, sheep, honeybees, earthworms, sugarcane, wheat, fruits,

coffee plants, and diseases came over to the Americas with European travelers." ( Big History Project Ch 8 Pg. 3)

"Europeans also introduced new animals to the Americas,

such as horses, pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle." ( Big History Project Ch 8 Pg. 3)
https://school.bighistoryproject.com/pages/console#media/04fb2fd6-a184-4723-acd0-89a015abc6c1
"Before Columbus, Native American
societies in the high Andes had domesticated llamas and alpacas, but no other animals
weighing more than 45 kg (100 lbs)." (The Columbian Exchange, McNeill)

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