Description

Chapter 1. Origins of world crops and livestock

· Peopling of the world

· Origins of agriculture

· Transcontinental dispersal of Near East crops

· Spread of Agriculture across the Mediterranean Basin

· Indian Ocean dispersals

· Dispersal of New World crops

· Evolution of farming methods

· World agriculture systems in 1492

Chapter 2. Evolution of European agriculture

· Background

· Food and diet

· Mixed farming

· Open field system and the manor

· Muslim green revolution in Spain (Al Andalus)

· Spread of the Mediterranean agrosystem

Chapter 3. Agriculture in the Americas in the 16th century

· Background

· Rural economies in the Americas in 1492

· Food and agriculture of Aztecs

· Food and agriculture of Incas

· Food and agriculture of Maya

· Food and agriculture of Taíno

· Food and agriculture of Tupi-Guardi

· Food and agriculture of North America

Chapter 4. The Spanish conquest of the Americas

· Background – Who were the conquerors?
· The initial Spanish conquest of the Americas

· Spread of the colonies

· Organization of Spanish America

· The Spanish colonial economy

· The Great Dying

· Effects of Columbian exchange on world population

Chapter 5. Crop and livestock introductions into Spanish America

· Background

· Early crop and livestock introductions to New Spain

· Early crop and livestock introductions to Peru

· Plantation crops introduced to Spanish America

Chapter 6. Homogenization of agriculture in Spanish America

· Background

· Colonial farms in the Caribbean

· Colonial farms in Mexico and Peru

· Old World livestock in the New World

· Amerindian farms after the conquest
Chapter 7. Portuguese colonization of Brazil

· The Portuguese colonization strategy

· Evolution of the Brazilian economy

· Slavery in the Americas

· Crop and Livestock introductions to Brazil

· Spread of sugar plantations to Caribbean

· Out from Africa