The beginning of the semester
Major volcanic eruption that nearly ended human life around 74,000 years ago.
What is Mt. Toba eruption?
The first domesticated animal.
What is the dog?
What crop was a major driver of mass enslavement in the Americas?
What is the name for a disease that mostly impacts young people, typically under age five?
Fill in this title: The Trouble With ______
What is wilderness?
What is a primary source?
This animal became domesticated following agriculture because it helped protect stored crops from pests.
What is the cat?
James Dole played a major role in promoting the production of this crop in Hawaii.
What is the pineapple?
While this disease has been eradicated, it was one of the most catastrophic killers of Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas.
What is smallpox?
Author of a primary source we read in class promoting a "static" view of nature.
Who is George Perkins Marsh?
What is the name for a view of history that is linear and progressive?
What is a teleological view?
Complete this title: "Running into ____"
What is Whales?
A victorian botanist referred to these plants as the "tramps" of the plant world.
What are weeds?
This disease was largely limited to India until the 1800s, but then became one of the most deadly killers.
What is Cholera?
Name of a large island in Lake Superior
What is the Isle Royale?
What is the scientific name for human beings?
What is homo sapiens?
This animal domesticated in the Americas was a major source of meat
What is the guinea pig?
What is the name of the region of Southwest Asia where many important plants and animals were domesticated?
This disease is spread by fleas that live on rats.
What is bubonic plague?
Author of "The Trouble with Wilderness"
Who is William Cronon?
German philosopher who inspired Karl Marx
What is Hegel?
What animal played a major role in both the Mongol and Comanche Empires?
What is the horse?
Name of French colony that became Haiti after a successful slave revolt
What is San Domingue?
How did most major diseases that afflict humans come to exist?
What is through domesticated animals?
Painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting the garden of Eden
What is the Garden of Earthly Delights?