The Columbian Exchange and the Real Story of Globalization - WSJ.com - 0 views
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A growing number of scholars believe that the ecological transformation set off by Columbus's voyages was one of the establishing events of the modern world. Why did Europe rise to predominance? Why did China, once the richest, most advanced society on earth, fall to its knees? Why did chattel slavery take hold in the Americas? Why was it the United Kingdom that launched the Industrial Revolution? All of these questions are tied in crucial ways to the Columbian Exchange.
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the common nightcrawler and the red marsh worm, creatures that did not exist in North America before 1492.
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Intoxicating and addictive, tobacco became the subject of the first truly global commodity craze.
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