Crash Course World History: Columbian Exchange (23)

Front 1

why is columbus significant

Back 1

discovered america (prefaced colonization), homogenized animals, diminished variation

Front 2

what is the connection between disease and war?

Back 2

the death of the Aztec and Incan rulers touched off wars which made it easier to spread disease (spread fastest through hand to hand combat) and the leaders of civilizations kept dying causing riots

Front 3

what is the connection between disease and starvation

Back 3

there weren't enough people left after disease took place to grow crops to feed the living, and malnutrition made people more susceptible to disease

Front 4

how can tobacco be seen as "revenge" for small pox

Back 4

the use of tobacco caused enormous amounts of death (more people died in wars from tobacco use than actual combat)

Front 5

what were the revolutionary effects of pigs, cows, oxen, and horses

Back 5

remade the food supply, increased the food supply, changed the nature of work in the americas, oxen allowed more land to be cultivated , remade culture, and agriculturalists became nomadic because of more wealth

Front 6

how did new world crops lead to a population increase in the old world

Back 6

many new world crops were brought to the old world, growing more food means the capability to sustain a larger population increases, the crops were more caloric, and could grow in soil that was infertile for old world crops

Front 7

how did population pressure in the old world lead to population increases in the americas

Back 7

civilizations and slaves of the old world went to the new world and repopulated what was lost when disease wiped out the natives

Front 8

did the diversity of people increase or decrease

Back 8

decrease

Front 9

according to crosby, was the columbian exchange positive or negative in its effect on the environment?

Back 9

negative, he talks about human brutality, decrease in life forms and their genetic diversity, and "impoverishment will increase"