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