L 5.2.5 Quiz: Global Commerce this subject.
- Alfred W. Crosby on the Columbian Exchange, 2011
O A. Practically all of them will get into a page or two or ten about the
decimation of American Indians, or a page about how important
maize is when all European crops fail, and things like that.
B. Smallpox was enormously important until quite modern times,
until the middle of the 20th century at the latest.
C. I really didn't realize that I was starting a revolution in
historiography when I got into this subject.
D. So I was chasing it down, and I found myself reading the original
accounts of the European settlements in Mexico, Peru, or Cuba in
the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
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