The article tries to explore why the Neo-Europeans failed to thrive in the areas like china, Japan, Middle East and Africa. It explains that the tropical diseases and the heat in these areas made it impossible for the Europeans to permanently settle. The article also indicates that few of the European women were interested in going to Asia. It further explains that the crops of the Europeans did poorly in most part of Africa since the diseases in Africa killed most of the plants planted by the Europeans. The climatic condition in most of the torrid zones led to mixing of races which in the result produced Creole and Mestizo populations in the Latin America.
Weeds
Commercialization and colonialism have had server effect to the world environment, possibly the achievement of the European imperialism may have had some ecological and biological components. Crosby found out that whenever the European shifted from one place to another, they carried along with them some species in form of plant, pathogens, animals and weed along with them. In the current world, the weeds of Australia in the southern part trace their origin back to Europe.
The article describes that the forest razzing for timber, the overgrazing of the animals and the abandoning of the cultivated areas make a very conducive environment for the development of the weeds. The articles records “As they take over disturbed ground, they stabilize the soil, block the baking rays of the sun and, for all their competitiveness, make it a better place for other plants than it was before. . .they give way to plants that may grow more slowly but grow taller and sturdier." (Crosby, 169) The article describes that most of the weeds do travel unidirectional, for example they travel from Europe and not to the Europe.
Work cited
Crosby, A W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe. London: Cambridge University press, 1986.
