AP World History Summer Reading “Guns‚ Germs and Steel” A.) In the Prologue of Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel by Jared Diamond‚ a local politician name Yali asks Jared Diamond a question‚ the answer to it is explain throughout the rest of the book. His question‚ “‘Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?’” By this‚ Yali wants to know why the advancements in some areas are greater than in others‚ why there are
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Columbian Exchange BBQ The Columbian Exchange was a major milestone in the diffusion of the New and Old World. In 1492‚ Columbus arrived in the Bahamas(2)‚ where he first came in contact with Native Americans. There‚ both exchanged their cultures such as crops‚ animals‚ metals‚ and germs‚ hence the name‚ Colombian Exchange. This has brought about both positive and negative effects. While some negative impacts are exemplified by the near-genocide of Amerindians‚ the demerits are outweighed by the
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Michelle Eller Effects Paragraph Week 7 February 19‚ 2009 The Effects of Cutting down trees Every year over 30 million trees are cut down. This had made a lot of hardship for the animals and wildlife in the area. Every time a tree is cut that is one more homeless animal who will end up traveling closer to the city. First‚ these animals will wonder around trying to find food‚ once they can not they will turn to any and every source. This is when domesticated animals start to become
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Dogs VS. Cats I am going to compare and contrast the things that dogs and cats have in common and what is different between our hairy little pets. There are a lot of similarities but there are also a lot of differences between them. First‚ we will talk about the similarities that these two creatures share. One of the most obvious things in common between these two animals is that they both have hair. They are also domesticated animals people have them as pets. They have to have love and affection
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The Columbian Exchange was a time when global diffusion of plants/crops‚ animals‚ human populations‚ and disease took place after voyages of exploration by European mariners. The Columbian Exchange effected both Europe and America from 1492-1750 in a similar way because they gained new resources and gave resources to each other; however‚ they differ in that Europe was affected in a greater quality‚ and America was affected in a more unfavorable way. The plants/crops that Europe received from America
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Buy an essay: Cats Make Better Pets than Dogs It is a common knowledge that pets play an integral part in the life of contemporary people as well as they used to thousands of years ago. Which pet to choose is an age-old question and certainly a matter of opinion and may be definitely answered only by an individual pet owner as it depends on what the owner expects to see in his pet. There are those who experienced keeping different pets and after that call themselves either a cat person or a dog
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Name: Nishita Khanna Block: D Date: 19/2/2013 Why Europe? (Final Draft) There was a difference in the ability of the Europeans to dominate and colonize the Americas and the Chinese Empire between the 15th and 18th centuries. The oldest argument before Jared Diamond’s observation‚ was that white people were smarter compared to other people across the whole world. Jared Diamond’s observation proved this argument wrong by observing the environmental conditions‚ because everyone has
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Disease !As the population began to increase‚ people lived closer and they began to interact with each other more. Diseases would spread easily and there wasn’t much medicine that could cure them. The effects were devastating once they were caught by a few people. People were crammed into small areas and the rubbish would cause most of the diseases. Neolithic Revolution Erika Clarry Specialisation !After the Neolithic Revolution some people had time to do other things and not gather food (like
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-Much land is deforested and disrupted as diamond and silver mining emerges. -New crops from Americas causes India’s population to rise almost double in size. -Columbian Exchange brings new crops to this region‚ allowing for the farmers of the region to exploit more of their land for extra crops. -American crops such as potatoes and corn increases population of the region. -Traders of the region utilize the monsoon winds in order to navigate across the Indian Ocean. -Silver mining causes deforestation
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Agriculture is the foundation from which civilization started from. If we did not have agriculture we would still be wandering around hunting small game and gathering anything edible that we might find. We would also have a very low population rate because we would not be able to stalk prey with a lot of people and we would have to kill more animals then there would be to survive. There is something good about not having agriculture. We would not have made so much pollution and the hole in the ozone
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