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What is nature?

• The space untouched by humans

• The psychological underpinnings that dictate the actions we take

• Any non-human agent affecting change

• Animals and plants with agency

In "Reinventing Eden," ___ discusses the gendering of nature.

Which is incorrect

• Cronon introduces the Columbian Exchange

• Furniss and Axtell discuss the frontier myth and teaching history

• Fenn argues Americans engaged in biological warfare at Fort Pitt

• Hodge argues that climate played a role in Indigenous depopulation

Answer explanation

Cronon talks about wilderness - a space free of human influence. Crosby introduces the Columbian Exchange.

Trigger and Dickason argue that Indigenous peoples were...

• Passive victims

• Limited in their resistance to colonists

• Embraced colonial technology, politics, and potentials, leading to their survival

• Possessing more agency during their colonial experience than previously explained by historians

Which is correct?

• DeJohn Anderson discusses sheep

• Melville discusses sheep

• Hamalainen and Flores discuss sheep

• Melville discusses the Chesapeake region

Hackett and Colpitts' articles connect well with...

• Fenn's work

• Hodge's work

• Cronon's work

• Any other paper we examined

According to Carney, rice cultivation was successful in America because of ___.

Stunden Bower's reading mainly examines the environmental transformation of...?

• Saskatchewan

• North Dakota

• Manitoba

• The Great Plains

Which reading connects best with Isenberg's work?

• Flores

• Cronon

• Crosby

• Fenn