AP®︎ World History: Topic 2.6 Flashcards

Movement of plants, animals, and disease organisms between ecological regions through trade, migration, conquest, and travel

Introduction and adoption of cultivated plants outside their original regions, often changing food supplies, populations, settlements, and landscapes

Early-ripening, drought-resistant rice from present-day Vietnam that could permit double cropping and increased Chinese food production and population

Asian citrus crops spread west by Muslim merchants and farmers, encouraging irrigated orchards, commercial horticulture, and more varied diets

A disease-causing organism or agent that can spread between populations through travel and exchange

An epidemic is a sharp regional increase in disease; a pandemic spreads across multiple regions or continents

Fourteenth-century plague pandemic spread through Afro-Eurasian trade routes that killed roughly 30–50 percent of Europe’s population and caused widespread disruption

The bacterium that caused the Black Death, conventionally spread to humans by fleas associated with infected rodents

Its partial integration of Eurasia increased movement across Central Asia, unintentionally creating pathways for plague transmission

Southeast Asian crop spread through Indian Ocean contacts that supported denser settlement and population growth in tropical Africa