Columbian Exchange

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Are Tomatoes Really From Italy?

Edit Newsweek 08 Jun 2016

A study published today reveals that many foods we associate with certain regions actually originate from a different country altogether, showing that no country has a diet of purely native crops ... Try Newsweek. Subscription offers. Following Christopher Columbus's 1492 arrival in South America, the Columbian exchange occurred, which saw the movement of crops, culture and technology to Europe ... ....

Surprising global origins for regional food favourites

Edit BBC News 08 Jun 2016

Italy's tomatoes and Thailand's potent chillies, although closely associated with these nations, originate from elsewhere, a study shows. The assessment of more that 150 key food crops shows how agriculture and diets rely on crops from other regions ... The findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B ... Growing understanding ... It was only after what is called the Columbian exchange," Dr Khoury explained ... @Mark_Kinver ... ....

Book review: Portugal’s bloody empire in Africa and Asia – and the making of the modern world

Edit South China Morning Post 07 Dec 2015

Conquerers. by Roger Crowley. Faber & Faber. “Had there been more of the world,” wrote Luís de Camões of the Portuguese explorers, they “would have discovered it” ... Historians such as Jared Diamond and Charles Mann have focused on the “Columbian Exchange”, in which the Americas were joined to the rest of the world. This initiated exchanges of plants, animals, cultures and diseases that had profound effects on both hemispheres....

Portuguese Conquests in Asia and the First Global Empire

Edit Caixin Online 05 Dec 2015

In this sweeping narrative Roger Crowley says Columbus's discovery of the Americas had a lesser impact on history, when compared to Portuguese forays into the Indian Ocean ... Historians such as Jared Diamond and Charles Mann have focused on the "Columbian Exchange", in which the Americas were joined to the rest of the world. This initiated exchanges of plants, animals, cultures and diseases that had profound effects on both hemispheres ... ....

10 US cities ask: Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 11 Oct 2015

(The Italian explorer was convinced he’d reached Asia .) ... Recommended ... Paul ... Earlier this week, the Brown University Daily Herald website briefly published an op-ed protesting the school’s plan to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day by a student who suggested that Americans focus on the “Columbian Exchange,” the introduction of new products and species from Old World to New and vice versa, rather than Columbus the man....

Freedom of Speech? Not At Brown University

Edit The Daily Beast 10 Oct 2015

The second, "Columbian Exchange Day," was altogether removed fromThe Herald's website because the editors "made a decision not to publish" and claim it was in print versions due to the logistical error of not stopping the presses in time ... In "Columbian Exchange Day," Maier argued for her peers to ditch the anti-Columbus Day demonstrations led by student groups....

Brown Student Newspaper Is Sorry For Op-Ed Offensive To Native Americans

Edit Huffington Post 08 Oct 2015

PROVIDENCE, R.I ... Dzhali Maier. One titled "The white privilege of cows," which was published Monday, "invoked the notion of biological differences between races," while "Columbian Exchange Day," published Tuesday, argued that Native Americans should be thankful for colonialism, according to the editor's note ... The "Columbian Exchange Day" column was removed and replaced by an editor's note ... On Sept ... ....

Getting All Fired Up for National Curry Week

Edit Pressat 08 Oct 2015

Thursday 8 October, 2015. Although it was not used in Indian cooking before the Columbian Exchange of the 15th and 16th centuries, it is difficult to imagine the nation's favourite dish without the chilli pepper in at least one of its almost 2,000 varieties. Today, having swiftly taken this fiery fruit to its culinary heart, India is now the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of chilli peppers ... The current top ten are. ... 1 ... 2....

Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns

Edit Denver Post 07 Oct 2015

PROVIDENCE, R.I ... Dzhali Maier ... "Columbian Exchange Day," published Tuesday, said Native Americans should be thankful for colonialism. The newspaper removed the latter from its website ... ....

Time to Abolish Columbus Day

Edit Huffington Post 06 Oct 2015

By Bill Bigelow. Once again this year many schools will pause to commemorate Christopher Columbus. Given everything we know about who Columbus was and what he launched in the Americas, this needs to stop ... A year later, Columbus intensified his efforts to enslave Indigenous people in the Caribbean ... "The Columbian Exchange benefited people all over the world." ... "How did the Columbian Exchange change the diet of Europeans?" ... Enough already ... ....

Columbus Day: What to tell your kid

Edit CNN 06 Oct 2015

(CNN)In October 2013, my daughter came home from school excited about Christopher Columbus. He had come to visit her class! During his visit, he told the children that he had figured out the world was round and then bravely led his crew to discover America. Then they all made telescopes. As a father and history professor, I was caught off-guard ... David M. Perry ... Replay ... Cloth and slavery defined the Columbian exchange from the beginning ... ....

What makes our cuisine 'Indian'? Throwing together disparate flavours, 'western' too, in a single dish

Edit The Times of India 20 Sep 2015

By Anoothi Vishal ... Enveloped in the sense of purity and piety that only cooking up prasad summons up (and which only stirrers of ritualistic offerings know), food history may be the last bite on our minds ... We have in our cuisine coriander, fenugreek, cumin from the Mediterranean, the perfumery and mewa from Iran, melons from Afghanistan, patata-batata from Portuguese trade and, above all, Guntur chillies from the Columbian Exchange....

Ancestry, admixture and fitness in Colombian genomes.

Edit Topix 26 Jul 2015

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. The human dimension of the Columbian Exchange entailed substantial genetic admixture between ancestral source populations from Africa, the Americas and Europe, which had evolved separately for many thousands of years ... ....