How has the movement of people and commodities to different parts of theworld transformed it?

FOOD REVOLUTION

• • • Filled in necessary ecological/climaticgaps for crops
    • Produced lots of extra calories–fedstarving peasants and even allowedpopulation to increase
    • Fills places around the tropics

EXCHANGES DISCUSSION

• • • What are the exchanges that characterize European expansioninto the “New World” (from the four categories we learnedabout on Tuesday)?
    • In what way do climate and geography affect these exchanges?How do Europeans modify local conditions?
    • How does the chapter by Crosby support these discussions?What biological exchange does he focus on? How does it affectthe New World?
    • How do European explorations/exchanges look like those fromthe monsoon exchange (Africa-Asia) or the Pacific World?
  • • Write:500-word paper(due Thurs, Sept 26 at 11:59 pm EST):
    • How has the movement of people and commodities to different parts of theworld transformed it?
  • • Discuss the four main categories of (biological) Columbian exchange
    • Explain how they affected different regions of the world (Americas, Africa/Asia, the Pacific)differently
    • What effect did it have on both the regions where biological entities were extracted and wherethey were brought to?
    • How did climate/geography/ideology play a role in these movements?
    • Why were their similarities and differences?
  • • In what way do we understand these exchanges as a result of imperialexpansion?
  • • Compare Zheng He’s voyages with the European counterparts.
    • How did different political, economic, or political structures seem to influence how these empiresexpanded and affected their environments? For example, you could compare European economicdesire for colonial crops and Chinese political desire to change their ‘enemies’ landscapes.

HOMEWORK

• 1. Marks Chapter 3, pgs. 67-86
  2. Quiz #5 due Wed, Sept 25
  3. medium writing assignmentdue next Thurs Sept 26 at 11:59 pm
     

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