Diamond Question

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(Merrett 2003)
Geography is the ultimate reason why some regions developed faster and more fully than others
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(Beinart 2007)
‘Importance of non-human auxiliaries
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(Nunn 2010
Climates change most drastically when one moves North-South rather than East-West, this helped to ensure that New World plants could find an Old World climate similar to their native and vice versa’ (
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Anker 2002
This energy, and thus level of civilization, could be measured by the number of inventions, the power to lead, and, above all, the trading of goods and knowledge.
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Beinart 2007 (Crosby 1986)
geographically restricted, land empires’/oceans into highways’
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(Diamond 1997)
’It was due to accidents of geography and biogeography- in particular, to the continents’ different areas,axes, and suites of wild plants and animal species.
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(Beinart 2007)
-Plants and domesticated animals [facilitated] the process of colonisation.
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Crosby 1986)
-These differences profoundly affected patterns of colonisation
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(Beinart 2007)
’[new diseases] were a major component in ecological imperialism/-Native Americans had domesticated plants but not many animals- the native americans did not develop immunities- ⅓ of populations succumbed to epidemics..
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Diamond 1997)
Diamond furthers the ancient belief in a universal trajectory of human progress dependent on domestication/This continental difference in harmful germs resulted paradoxically from the difference in useful livestock
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Jordan 2016
The introduction of calorically rich and nutritional New World crop species – potatoes, maize and cassava in particular – facilitated agricultural developments that allowed for sustained population growth in the Old World.
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Beinart 2007
-Plant transfers lay at the heart of imperial expansion and the Atlantic slave trade
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Beinart 2007
All human survival necessitates disturbance of nature; population increase has required, and been intricately related to, intensification of production and trade.
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Nunn 2010
We find that the potato had a significant positive impact on population growth, explaining 12 percent of the increase in average population after the adoption of the potato. We also estimate the effect the potato had on urbanization, a measure that i
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Nunn and Qian (2009)
suggest that the improvement in agricultural productivity from the introduction of potatoes had significant effects on historic population growth and urbanization.
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Diamond 1997
Eurasia's much longer history of densely populated, economically specialized, politically centralized, interacting and competing societies dependent on food production.
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