Summary of Charles C. Mann's 1493

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The common nightcrawler and the red marsh worm, which did not exist in the New World before 1492, were probably in the soil of Jamestown when the settlers arrived.



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Earthworms are a good example of how the Jamestown colony unintentionally affected the environment. When the colonists arrived in Virginia, they inadvertently introduced the Homogenocene to North America.