User-Created Clip by tgrane September 3, 2019 2016-10-08T20:28:18-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/89e/20161008203034003_hd.jpgProfessor emeritus John Demos ...

The global mixing of humans and their deadly diseases is just one aspect of a much larger global biological mixing that the historian Alfred Crosby called the Columbian Exchange. Not only did ...

What diseases are included in the Columbian Exchange? The Old World invaders came in with a raft of infectious diseases. Not that the New World didn’t have any at all, but it did not have the ...

Crosby, a historian who illuminated the wide-ranging, oft-forgotten role the environment has played in human history — particularly in what he dubbed the “Columbian exchange,” when diseases ...

From the standpoint of the intercontinental transmission of microparasites, the Columbian exchange can be simplified as an exchange of smallpox and syphilis. When it is said that syphilis is the first ...

Peasants who suffered a recurrence of the disease as adults could likely ... so to speak — because they believed in the Columbian exchange. Regarding syphilis, however, that intellectual ...

White plantation owners withdrew to their mansions in breezy locations that offered partial protection from the disease ... soldiers of the North. The "Columbian Exchange" -- as historians ...

the rise of the West — all of these are tied up in what's been called the 'Columbian exchange.' " "There's absolutely nothing in my garden that originated within 1,000 miles of my house," he says.

What diseases are included in the Columbian Exchange? The Old World invaders came in with a raft of infectious diseases. Not that the New World didn’t have any at all, but it did not have the ...