The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23
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In which John Green teaches you about the changes wrought by contact between the Old World and the New. John does this by exploring the totally awesome history book "The Columbian Exchange" by Alfred Cosby, Jr. After Columbus "discovered" the Americas, European conquerors, traders, and settlers brought all manner of changes to the formerly isolated continents. Disease and invasive plant and animal species remade the New World, usually in negative ways. While native people, plants, and animals were being displaced in the Americas, the rest of the world was benefitting from American imports, especially foods like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, pineapple, blueberries, sweet potatoes, and manioc. Was the Columbian Exchange a net positive? It's debatable. So debate. Resources: The Columbian Exchange, by Alfred Cosby, Jr: http://dft.ba/-columbian Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Follow us again! http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse
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1:45 is that Steve Bannon?
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who came here cos John mentioned it
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mY TEACHER BE MUTTING IT so i'm cramming this in at last minute lol <3
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Technically a person isn't always an animal(though usually). There's a difference between person and human. Humans are animals.
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1: I don't know why part of my country Ireland was shaded out on the map shown. The entity in the north of Ireland did not exist until 1921.
2: Nothing in Ireland was great for anyone under British rule.
3: There was no "potato famine" it was a genocide with the hope of drastically reducing the Irish population in the hope of reducing resistance to British rule. Food was exported from the country during An Górta Mór as it is know in Ireland. -
Actually there are European blueberries. They're smaller, but very good
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Tribes of the northern and southern plains had seen horses before the Spanish. But hey, this is for entertainment (so vastly oversimplified) and I was entertained.
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thank u that will help me on my test on friday and merry x-mas
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I don't think that last fruit picture is blue berries. I'm pretty sure its a poisonous berry
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about the ciagrretes being hadned out to the soidlers in WWII. my dad was an MP, and the mariines from the sectrion he was in, they were given reations from the koean war.
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Pizza it's pizza
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Damn patato gobblers!
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Poles. In Czech Republic. Yeah. Thanks making my nation unknown and not interesting to the world. Again. Everyone always blames and hates Poland :c .....
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Europe did have pizza prior to the Columbian Exchange. It just didn't have tomato sauce.
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Explain why Europeans has advantages over the Americans due to disease and domesticated animals.
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3:32 It pointed on Czech republic, not Poland.
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"OMG Shut up before I kill you and create a Time Travel Paradox" ~John Green, 2012
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I am trying to get 250 subs, sub to me and I will sub back
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"It was the greatest gift of aaaaahhaaaahhaaaahaaaal" XD
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It's literally my homework to watch John Green. This is fantastic.
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