Everything you need to study or teach literature!

Charles C. Mann
This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of 1491.

Everything you need to study or teach literature!

Charles C. Mann
This Study Guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of 1491.
This section contains 225 words
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1

What is an interaction sphere? Provide an example from Mesoamerica and an example from Europe.

2

Describe what “slash-and-burn” agriculture is. How is it different from “slash-and-char” agriculture? Which process better protects the environment?

3

What do scientists and researchers mean when they say that the present-day Amazon rainforest was created by man? What do they base their conclusions on?

4

Explain the diverse positions of the environmentalist and the developer relative to the future of the rainforest. What do the terms “nomos” and “physis” mean?

5

How did Pizarro defeat the Inka? When the Spaniard conquistadors were first seen by the Inka, what were they shocked about?

6

What was the importance of maize in the Americas? How was it developed and what other produce or crops can it be compared to?

7

How did the Mexica priests react when confronted by visiting European priests about Christianity? What warning did the European...

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