The Byzantine Empire, in western Asia and southeastern Europe, expanded into eastern Europe. The Byzantine Empire, with territory in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the eastern Mediterranean, maintained very high levels of political, economic, and cultural life between 500…
World History
The Columbian Exchange Assignment
The Columbian Exchange is one of the most significant results of the Age of Exploration and the First Global Age. Food products, livestock and diseases are but three elements of the Columbian Exchange. As Columbus “discovered America” and Western Europe…
Trade and the Columbian Exchange Assignment
Exchange helped to link the Americas, Africa, and Europe, while huge international trade networks aided in shaping the world. In these trade networks, the spice, silver, slave, and sugar trades were especially important in affecting the world. The silver trade…
The Columbian Exchange Assignment
The Columbian Exchange is the exchange of plants, animals, food, and diseases between Europe and the Americas. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus came to America, he saw plants and animals he had never seen before so he took them back…
Positive and Negative Effects of the Columbian Exchange Assignment
Although Columbus’s revelation of the New World to the Old World caused deadly diseases to both hemispheres, a loss of preservation of native American culture in the New World, and the unhealthy effect of tobacco in the Old World, it…
The Columbian Exchange Reflectionassignment Assignment
Reflection of The Columbian Exchange Crosby, Alfred W. ” The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. ” Duke University Press, 2003 Before reading this book, when I think of the Columbian Exchange, a song/poem I had to memorize…
Aztec Food and Agriculture Informative Speech Assignment
The Aztec only ate two meals a day, unlike people today. Since the ancient Aztec had no access to livestock such as cows and pigs, which were later introduced to them by the Spanish, their main diet consisted of vegetables…
Aztec Sports Assignment
They played amazing games such as Pivotal as well as dangerous sports like Italics. I think it would be interesting to see these ancient games in person. In the Aztec ball game Italics you used a ball. The ball was…
Human Sacrifice In The Aztec Culture Assignment
Human Sacrifice in the Aztec Culture When the words “Human Sacrifice” come to your mind, what do you think? To me I think it is abnormal and horrific. Most people could agree with me, but others not so much. Human…
Aztec, human sacrifice Assignment
Introduction When you think of the Aztec, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of the Spanish conquistadors or their beautiful capital at Ethnocentric. What comes to mind for a lot of people Is their practice of human sacrifice. In…