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Native American history review

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Columbian exchange
The basic idea that the entire world is fundamentally connected or directly after 1492
Homogenocene
The meaning or idea that the world is becoming more anthropogenically run with the hope to make it better for the entire world
Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic monarchs of Spain, completed for voyages across the Atlantic ocean
Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi
a Basque Spanish navigator and governor who established the first Spanish settlement in the East Indies when his expedition across the Pacific ocean from the viceroyalty of new Spain and modern-day Mexico, founded Cuba on the Philippine Islands in 1565
Andres de Urdaneta
A Spanish circumnavigator explore and Augustinian friar
James town
A settlement in the colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
Plymouth
An English colony venture in North America from 1620-1691
Red Marsh Worm
A worm that tends to be specialized in decaying organic material, thrives in routing vegetation, compost, And manure
Nightcrawlers
And earthworm that tends to be present only in soil, typically are within the top 2 feet of the soil
Vermiculture
The idea to feed organic waste to worms to make Rich reusable fertilizer
Nicotiana tobacum
The most common and excepted. The US have it. It's most well grown the largest industry. Mostly in first world countries
Nicotiana rustica
Most common to Third World countries. While you can smoke it, it's much worse for the body
Western European honeybee
A species of honeybee. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee"
Aedes aegypti
A mosquito that can spread yellow fever,chikungunya,and other diseases
Anopheles genus
Mosquito that spreads malaria
Plasmodium vivax
A mosquito that thrives in colder climates
Plasmodium Falciparum
A mosquito that thrives more in warmer climates
Quinine/Chinchona
A disease spread by mosquitoes
Indentured servant
A person who sells them selves to work in America to eventually pay off their debt and become a citizen
The Mason-Dixon line
The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, taken as the northern lemon of the slave owning staves before slavery was abolished
Cowry Shells
This was the first money system for China
Huizi
This was the first paper money for China
Chao
This was the first type of flat money or fake money
Wokou
Pirates of the coast of China that brought an uncontrollable amount of silver into China
Manila
The first economic and political capital of the Philippines
Parian
A trade system between the Spanish and the Chinese
Tu Lou Structures
Traditional communal residence found in Fujian province South China, usually of a circular configuration surrounding a central shrine
Malthusian trap
The basic idea that suggests that humans rely on substances and so at some point humans will overthrow their food source and eventually run out of food
Afforestation
The idea of trying to build or replant trees in a place where they've never been before to try and create an environment where it should be
Reforestation
Idea of forcibly replanting trees in a place where Deforestation has already occurred
Green wall of China
They plan to stop Desertification by planting trees
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