Mingwei
Joined: 03 Jan 2012
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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:51 pm Post subject: New England, Native Americans and Europeans |
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| The second part of the reading (the actively read one) is pretty broad. It begins with talking about the abundant resources in New England, then moves on to the population of Native Americans before and after the arrival of Europeans, and ends with the relationship between environment and population. The reading has a lot of connections with the essay by Diamond. Diamond believes that the reason why the Old World developed faster was that there were more animal species and plants in Eurasia, but it seems this contradicts the reality. The Europeans “… were flabbergasted by the ‘incredible abundance’ of wildlife” (p. 84). They found many species they had never seen before, including trees, fish, birds, mammals, etc. This shows that there were at least adequate amount of species in the New World, which means the lack of species was not the reason why New World didn’t develop as fast. |
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