europes pioneer in the area of exploration was henry the navigator.
europes pioneer in the area of exploration was?
henry the navigator
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na
crosby's explanation for the success of european imperialists is biogeographical. europe and the neo-europes all share similar latitudes. that is, europe and the neo-europes "are all completely or at least two-thirds in the temperate zones, north and south, which is to say that they have roughly similar climates". this is significant because the plants and animals europeans have traditionally relied upon for sustenance tend to require a warm-to-cool climate that receives 50 to 150 centimeters of annual precipitation to flourish. therefore, just as farming was able to spread from the fertile crescent, east and west, without much difficulty, replacing the hunter-gatherer lifestyle along the way, so was it able to in the neo-europes. but before this could take place, because the indigenous flora and fauna in the neo-europes were different from those located in europe, the foreign biota brought to the new world by europeans would have to compete with the local ones to survive. this would ultimately result in the complete devastation of the native floras and faunas. crosby says: "the regions that today export more foodstuffs of european provenance – grains and meats – than any other lands on earth had no wheat, barley, rye, cattle, pigs, sheep, or goats whatsoever five hundred years ago".
ecological imperialism (book)