Nature in the New World: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernandes de Oviedo

1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 578
Author(s):  
Vincent H. Cassidy ◽  
Antonello Gerbi ◽  
Jeremy Moyle
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Christopher Columbus

A Consumer’s Guide to Eggs

EDIS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine Beatty ◽  
Karla Shelnutt ◽  
Gail P. A. Kauwell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fatty Acid ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Food Stores ◽  
Omega 3 Fatty Acid ◽  
Chicken Eggs

People have been eating eggs for centuries. Records as far back as 1400 BC show that the Chinese and Egyptians raised birds for their eggs. The first domesticated birds to reach the Americas arrived in 1493 on Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the New World. Most food stores in the United States offer many varieties of chicken eggs to choose from — white, brown, organic, cage free, vegetarian, omega-3 fatty acid enriched, and more. The bottom line is that buying eggs is not as simple as it used to be because more choices exist today. This 4-page fact sheet will help you understand the choices you have as a consumer, so you can determine which variety of egg suits you and your family best. Written by Jeanine Beatty, Karla Shelnutt, and Gail Kauwell, and published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, November 2013. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy1357

“I Lead the Way, Like Columbus”

2019 ◽  
pp. 391-419
Author(s):  
Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Orson Scott Card ◽  
The Way

Readers of The Book of Mormon have long identified Christopher Columbus as the “man among the Gentiles” whose divinely prompted journey to the Americas is foretold therein; Columbus thus became a model for the prophetic leadership of Joseph Smith. But if Columbus was inspired to discover the New World, that inspiration was imprecise, as the admiral sailed for China, suggesting that revelation is necessarily an ambiguous, messy process whose conclusions are uncertain and provisional, subject to correction or revision. Because his arrival in the Americas precipitated the genocide of Native peoples, identifying Columbus as a prophetic figure has forced faithful readers of The Book of Mormon to grapple with the question of theodicy. Some, like the novelist Orson Scott Card, have suggested that the Amerindian genocide is compatible with the justice of a loving God, while others have argued that The Book of Mormon celebrates prophetic weakness and promotes hermeneutic humility.

Precious metals and mining in the New World: 1500–1800

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
K. N. Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
New World ◽  
Precious Metals ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Indian Ocean World

The discovery of large quantities of gold and silver in the New World following the voyage of Christopher Columbus had a major impact on the subsequent history of the world economy. These two precious metals together with copper were regarded as the standard and measure of value in all societies throughout history. The sudden increase in the supply of gold and silver greatly increased the capacity of individual countries such as Spain and Portugal to finance wars and imports of consumer goods. The new Spanish coin, the real of eight, became an international currency for settling trade balances, and large quantities of these coins were exported to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and China to purchase oriental commodities such as silk piece goods, cotton textiles, industrial raw material such as indigo, and various kinds of spices, later followed by tea, coffee, and porcelain. The trade in New World gold and silver depended on the development of new and adequate mining techniques in Mexico and Peru to extract the ore and refine the metal. South German mining engineers greatly contributed to the transplantation of European technology to the Americas, and the Spanish-American silver mines utilised the new mercury amalgamation method to extract refined silver from the raw ores. Although the techniques used in Mexico and Peru were not particularly advanced by contemporary European standards, the American mine owners remained in business for more than three hundred years, and the supply of American silver came to be the foundation of the newly rising Indian Ocean world economy in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus

Hispania ◽  
1952 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 376
Author(s):  
Ramon Rozzell ◽  
Lope de Vega ◽  
Frieda Fligelman
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Christopher Columbus

Mistranslation, Unsettlement, La Navidad

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 938-946
Author(s):  
Anna Brickhouse
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
New World ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
European Colonization

On 14 october 1492, on the island that he had just named San Salvador, Christopher Columbus Seized Seven TaÍno indians to serve as translators. The abduction was clearly an act of significant forethought, registering Columbus's intention that these interpreters “inquire and inform … about things in these parts” (Columbus, “Tetter” 118)—a first step toward the subjugation of all the inhabitants of San Salvador, who might one day be “taken to Castile or held captive” on the island (Columbus, Diario 75). The taking of these indigenous translators has been no less momentous for contemporary scholarship, perhaps especially in early modern English and American literary studies: in the year of the Columbian quincentenary, Stephen Greenblatt memorably called it “the primal crime in the New World … committed in the interest of language” (24); Eric Cheyfitz concurs that “translation was, and still is, the central act of European colonization and imperialism in the Americas” (104). Yet the concept of translation as a wholly imperial instrument, as commonplace in Columbus's day as in our own, has limited our thinking in important ways (Adorno, “Polemics” 20). As ethnohistorians and literary critics alike have suggested, the interpretive sway of the “linguistic colonialism” model can obscure as much about its Native objects as it reveals about the purported discursive complexity of its European subjects.

Christopher Columbus: Bridge Between the Old and New World

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
V. J. Schlene
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Christopher Columbus

scholarly journals The Beginning of Dutch and English Conflict in Banda and Moluccas in the Early Seventeenth Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
A S Shngreiyo
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Spice Trade

Why Christopher Columbus did discovered America the new world, why did Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to reach India. They went and risk their life if search of the Spice Islands. The spices that European was searching were found in Indonesia Archipelago, Bandas famous for nutmeg and mace and Moluccas for its clove. After the formation of the East India Company in the early seventeenth century both the Dutch and English were competing against each other and outmaneuver one another for control of the islands. In the end, it was the Dutch who emerge victories. The Dutch established a monopoly on the spice trade from the Moluccas. They gained control over the clove trade through an alliance with the sultan of Ternate. Dutch occupation of the Banda’s gave them control of the nutmeg trade. Dutch control of the region was fully realized when Malacca was captured from the Portuguese in 1641. The Dutch were quite merciless when it suited their purposes; sometime obliterate the whole native population. By its brutal conquest over the Spice Islands they were able to control over the spice trade. Nevertheless, the English were not left behind whenever there is opportunity they set in to take the advantage of the sour relation between the native and Dutch, as the English played a role of more mercantile communities than occupation. The beginning of the seventeenth century is very important for the two companies as it decide the fate of the spices trade. Both companies were not willing to back out.

scholarly journals The Great Pox

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 202
Author(s):  
Laura Bowater
Keyword(s):  
Canary Islands ◽  
New World ◽  
Small Island ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Christopher Columbus ◽  
Landing Point ◽  
Portuguese Coast ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
And Migration

The 3rd of August 1492 marked the start of one of the most significant periods of global exploration, travel and migration. Setting sail from Palos on the Portuguese coast, Christopher Columbus, sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, headed westward bound for the Canary Islands. From the Canaries, Columbus continued his voyage. Thirty-five days after setting sail, he reached the Bahamas. His first landing point, on a small island, known as San Salvador, was used by Columbus as a base to explore and map the islands of this New World, before he and his crew returned to Spain in the spring of 1493.

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