The Columbian Exchange was an important event in transferring goods from the Americas to the rest of the world. Learn about the Columbian Exchange,...
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The new global trade routes, established after the Americas were opened up to exploration, drastically changed the global economy. Learn about the Columbian exchange, the new global trade, and mercantilism, and examine their effects on global economics. ...
Common bean first became known to the scientific world with the Columbian exchange beginning in 1493, but little is known about the genetic diversity of the early introductions to Europe. Systematic breeding of common bean began in the nineteenth century in Europe and the USA. Common bean was ...
The king of the Qin State, the most powerful state during the Warring States Period (475–221 BCE), attempted to buy the jade disc back from the Zhao State in exchange for 15 cities. (Jade is known as 价值连城, 'Valued at multiple cities" because of this story.) However, he failed....
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Roy Ellen Background The 1990s witnessed a growing acknowledgement world wide of the importance of local ecological knowledge in the context of food security and sustainable development (Warren, Slikkerveer and Brokensha 1995; Sillitoe, Bicker and Pottier 2002; Pottier, Bicker...
exchange written communications has been felt by all human societies and has been met in many ways, the evolution of varied postal systems adopted by different societies through the centuries into the basically similar pattern of today’s state monopoly service has been a long and difficult process...