Analyze the impact of spices on trade, geography and the spread of religion Describe the role that spices played with the plague Explain how spices influenced European exploration and colonial...

Part 5: FOOD AS A WEAPON

1. 
   

   Describe the impact of food on the American Revolution and the French Army under Napoleon

   
   


2. 
   

   Analyze the role of food in the American Civil War up through World War II

   
   


3. 
   

   Analyze the impact of the Berlin Airlift on Cold War politics

   
   


4. 
   

   Compare the famines in the Soviet controlled Ukraine in the 1930s and in China during the “Great

   
   

   Leap Forward” How did the famine in the Ukraine influence the eventual fall of the Soviet Union in

   
   

   1991?

   
   


5. 
   

   Explain how food has been and continues to be a way to make a political statement

   
   

Part 6: FOOD, POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

1. 
   

   Explain the importance of Nitrogen and Ammonia to agriculture

   
   


2. 
   

   Explain how and why “dwarf” varieties became so popular and productive

   
   


3. 
   

   What is the “Green Revolution”?

   
   


4. 
   

   Analyze the impact of the Green Revolution on world economies and population

   
   


5. 
   

   Describe the problems with the Green Revolution How might a second Green Revolution improve on

   
   

   those problems?

   
   


6. 
   

   Summarize the Epilogue

   
   

OVERALL EVALUATION:

1. 
   

   What do you think of Standage’s approach to history? Is this a useful way to think about history? What other approaches might one take?

   
   


2. 
   

   Did you like this book? Why or why not?