Reading Guide: The Columbian Exchange and Columbus: Hero ...



Reading Guide: The Columbian Exchange and Columbus: Hero or Villain

 

Below are the basic items with which you need to be familiar for the upcoming test.

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The Columbian Exchange

To what does the term “Columbian Exchange” refer?

De Acosta’s view of plants

The primary agent of human maintenance

Most widely used grain in New World

What happens to people who eat maize but are not used to it

What type of climate/soil is best suited for maize

Other uses for maize besides food

What is sora, and why it was forbidden by law

Which commodity was used as money

Drink made from the cacao plant

Purpose of the ‘mother of the cacao”

Why the coca cultivation was disputed by lawyers and wise men

The maguey

Which commodity fared better: New World plants in Spain, or Spanish plants in the New World

Trees, fruits, etc that fared best in the New World

What is meant by the term “profitable plant”

Status of the wine trade

Status of silk industry

Sugar

Status of olive industry

 

Columbus-Hero or Villain?

The origin of the “traditional Columbus myth”

Columbus’ view of himself

Las Casas and Columbus

“Mien Kampf” version of Columbus’ life

Effect of his own propaganda

A whinger . . .what is it?

Nature of Columbus’ “implacable temperament”

Complaints against the “servants of the Castilian crown”

Allegations attacking Columbus’ competence rather than his good faith

Missionary opinion in 1500 of Columbus; effect on the colony

Columbus as a slaver

Why the Caribs were justified as slaves

Indians group that made up the majority of Columbus’ slave trade

Columbus’ response on Indian slaves dying aboard ship

Reason for friars and bureaucrats denouncing Columbus’ slaving

Reason author disagrees with the use of the word “genocide” when discussing Columbus

Columbus treatment: by mistake rather than by crimes? Explain

Why Columbus did not want unmarried men in the colony

Friar’s reaction to deforestation

“post hunc ergo propter hunc” what the heck is this?

What the author means by “empathy”

The three “essential disciplines’ for value judgment

The “practical constraints: under which historical figures must operate

Examples of “successful” colonial experiments

Heroism and villainy as objective qualities

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