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Not named directly here, but used as the exchange model: New World crops transform European population while Old World diseases devastate native populations.
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Columbian exchange
Not named directly here, but used as the exchange model: New World crops transform European population while Old World diseases devastate native populations.
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The old-world/new-world collision revolutionized European agriculture because corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash, and tomatoes created a more nutritious food base and helped produce a European population explosion.
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"Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the..."
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"Okay? It's a very long process. And corn allowed for the man civilization to flourish. So corn is an extremely important nutrient that's easy..."
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"this morning is, how did a few thousand conquistadors, Spanish mercenaries, basically, how were they able to conquer millions and millions, millions of indigenous..."
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Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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