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





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