- 1492
- By 1700
- Most of South America
- Mexico
- Florida, California
- How did they do it?
- Case Study
- "Peru" (1535-1717) means Spanish-speaking South America (not Brazil)
- Spanish vs. South America (Incans)
- Spanish side
- America
- How did Pizarro win?
- Smallpox took over the Incas...
- The Inca leader was killed by smallpox
- Incan Civil War
- Guns!
- Horses!
- Maybe some dirty tricks?
- Jared Diamond's theory
- Biodiversity and geographical difference
- European Advantages
- Military Tech
- Immunities to disease
- How did they get these advantages?
- Biodiversity in Eurasia
- Biodiversity means that there are more kinds of plants
- Also means more animals
- Effect of biodiversity (all of this leads to technology!)
- Better food supply
- Higher population
- Specialization of labor
- Geography
- Boundaries ran east and west
- Plants and animals travel east to west
- Biology has a tendency to travel east and west so Eurasia had a better chance
- The Americas were north-south continents so it's harder for things to travel
- Technology and disease also spread east to west
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