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Old World Plants and Animals in The New World
Old World Plants and Animals in The New World
and Animals in
the New World
Ecological Imperialism
Old World
Wheat
Sugar cane
Horses
Cattles
Pigs
The Columbian Exchange
By Alfred Crosby
New World
Maize
Potatoes
Tobacco
Cocoa
Tomatoes
Cotton
Weeds
animals
Benefits
Tripled
plants
Animals as important source of dietary
protein
Benefits
Ox-drawn plow
From intensive to extensive agriculture
Intensive - small area, many workers
Extensive large area, few workers
Soil
Not a benefit
In Hawaii
New England
Hunting for game and wild food (even before
the coming of new world indigenous poeple)
Permanent and semipermanent villages
Clearing and planting small areas
Fish
Birds
Deer
Berries
Plants
New England
Agriculture
Corn
Squash
Beans
Tobacco
Barter system
No concept of surplus
Land and resources were shared
Increased Ecological
Imperialism
Due
to improvement of world-system
Europeans attraction to rare and exotic
Examples
Increased Ecological
Imperialism
Tulips
Mania!!!! (1600)
Dutch
Spread from Turkey to Netherlands (1565)
A bulb would cost as much a townhouse
in Amsterdam
Success?
Considered
The End?
No,
The pineapple
breadfruit
The Consequences
Spread
of botanical gardens
The Consequences
Increased
pace of change
Tahiti to Caribbean
To England
David Douglas
1820s to 1930s
Royal Horticulture Society
200 different plants, via the Pacific
The Consequences
Breakdown
of major biogeographical
barriers
The Consequences
With