Fundamentals of Environmental History
An approach to understanding history that emphasizes environmental factors to the exclusion of all others.
What is environmental determinism?
Developed the concept of Asiatic mode of production.
Who is Karl Marx?
This is the primary staple crop that originated in the Americas.
What is Maize?
Jared Diamond notes that this region in the modern Middle East was rich in easily domesticated plants and animals.
What is the fertile crescent?
Author of Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Who is Jared Diamond?
An approach to history that emphasizes Europe to the exclusion of other regions.
What is Eurocentrism?
Deeply associated with a dialectical and teleological view of history.
Who is Hegel?
This animal shaped the Comanche and Mongol Empires?
What is the horse?
The species of rice domesticated in West Africa.
What is oryza glaberrima?
Author of Black Rice.
Who is Judith Carney?
This is the term for the study of the writing of history.
What is historiography?
Deeply influenced by Marx and Max Weber, this scholar wrote a book about water and authoritarianism.
Who is Karl Wittfogel?
Great debate exists as to whether this event was caused by climate change or over-hunting.
What are the Late-Pleistocene extinctions?
The book Why Nations Fail proposes this alternative to environmental determinism.
What is institutional determinism?
This volcano's eruption approximately 75,000 years ago nearly ended human life.
What is Mt. Toba?
Author of the essay "The Trouble With Wilderness".
Who is Cronin?
This is composed of the relations of production and the forces of production.
What is mode of production?
Associated with the industrial revolution, Haiti suffered a severe outbreak of this disease in the 2010s.
What is Cholera?
Karl Wittfogel wrote this book about the relationship between state, society, and water.
What is Oriental Despotism?
Mansa Musa was the ruler of this major West African polity.
What is the Mali Empire?
Emphasizes that "nature" is constantly in a state of flux rather than stasis.
Who is Botkin?
Author of the book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, this writer drew on Marx to discuss global inequalities.
Who is Walter Rodney?
Canonical text by Thomas Malthus on food and population.
What is An Essay on the Principle of Population?
Ryan Tucker discussed how sea mammals shaped Russia's Pacific empire in this article.
What is "Running With Whales"?
A Russian politician recently demanded the return of this US location as compensation for sanctions.
What is Fort Ross?