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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences

By NadiaG
  • Columbus lands in the Bahamas
    Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus lands in the Bahamas

    "The connection between the Old and New Worlds, which for more than ten millennia had been no more than a tenuous thing of Viking voyages, drifting fishermen, and shadowy contacts via Polynesia, became on the twelfth day of October 1492..." (p. 662)
  • Dec 6, 1520

    Philippus Paracelsus: "...They are descended from another Adam."

  • Irish Potato Famine

    Irish Potato Famine

  • Darwin & Wallace present Theory of Evolution to Linnaean Society

    Darwin & Wallace present Theory of Evolution to Linnaean Society

  • "Origin of Species" published

    "Origin of Species" published

  • American frontier declared closed

    American frontier declared closed

    Frontier Thesis (Turner)

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