Week 10 Flashcards
ecological imperialism
- newcomers changing ideas of land, new species and diseases and germs when coming which would drastically change the ecology of the new area
moa bird
flightless birds (evolved this way because of its separation)
megafauna
- huge animals going extinct after human interactions
Alfred Crosby
- columbian exchange
- movement across atlantic creates biological changes
neo-Europe
settlers recreate European societies in geographically similar places
buffalo (invasive)
brought into australia for farming, took over area when broken out
predator fress 2050
movement in new zealand
- save birds from invasive predators
- backed by government and orgs
bison
- bison scientific
- buffalo popular name
- was hunted to near extinction
Blackfoot
- Iinii Initiative
-movement to bring back buffalo
Comaches
-people hired to kill bison
Black deatg (plague)
virgin soil epidemic
- new land people getting sick
- unable to fix it through their docterines
Smallpox
spread to indigenous people
- europeans had it as a kid and did not get sick
impact of disease
- elders dying: loss of knowledge
- aduults’ loss of parents and food producers
children: loss of hope
Yanomami
- fought against miners/ deforesters, got sick
- fined for genocide
- still being worked new illegally
scheduled tribes
- earliest inhabitants of india
- 1 Leave them along, assimiate them or respect and integrate them
terra nullius
seen as empty land which is ned used correctly (australia)
European expansion explore utilize control syndrome
- in contrast to indigenous people flexibility wiht land and resources
- conflict in understandings of human land relationships