Five Hundred Years after the Old World Discovered the New World: The Results of the Great Agricultural Exchange.

Winsberg, Morton D.

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ERIC Number: EJ463270

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Publication Date: 1992

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Five Hundred Years after the Old World Discovered the New World: The Results of the Great Agricultural Exchange.

Winsberg, Morton D.

Social Studies, v83 n5 p216-19 Sep-Oct 1992

Discusses the exchange of plants and animals that resulted from the contact between Europe and the Americas. Includes a table of percentages of the world's crops and animal populations in the western hemisphere. Describes the social disruption that resulted from the agricultural exchange by the spread of slavery and other exploitive labor practices. (DK)

Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Crops, Geographic Distribution, Geography Instruction, Land Use, World History

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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