Caribbean Ecological History

The World , 1525,

Magellan's Circumnavigation ; 1524.

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Transplanting Europe's Ecology

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Native agriculture sustained dense populations

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European agriculture was labor intensive.

Hegemony or dominance depended on biological reality and cultural peculiarity;

Columbus, for instance, believed he was in the South China Sea.

Crosby vs Diamond debate on Why the Dominance of Europe?

    1. Germs
    2. Seeds
    3. Animals
    4. Guns
    5. Steel
    6. Faith
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"the Columbian Exchange has created markets for Europe without which she would have been and would now be a very different and much poorer region of the earth, and poverty a palpably heavier burden on the connubial propensities of young adults."

Alfred Crosby , (Germs, Seeds, and Animals.), p. 214.

 

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A 1658 map of the New Word, as the Americas were called.

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