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Columbian Exchange
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Columbian Exchange The exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology and culture between the Western and Eastern Hemisphere after the “discovery” of the New World The exchange went in both directions. Europeans and Native Americans learned much from each other.
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Columbian Exchange Which is the Old World? Which is the New World?
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Native New World Plants
Tobacco Maize (corn) Beans Tomatoes Potato Chocolate Benefits Improved the diet of many Europeans Helped the economy and created income for many Europeans
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Perhaps three-fifths of the crops grown around the globe today originated in the Americas.
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European Contributions
Crops Rice Wheat Bananas Sugar Coffee Tea Livestock Horses Cows Pigs
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Category Old World to New New World to Old Plant Apple Apricot Artichoke Banana Barley Black pepper Cabbage Coffee Citrus Garlic Lettuce Mango Oat Olive Onion Peach Pear Rice Soybean Sugarcane Tea Wheat Walnut Avocado Beans Bell pepper Blueberry Cashew Chili peppers Cocoa Cotton Maize Peanut Pecan Plum Potato Pumpkin Rubber Squash Tobacco Tomato Vanilla With a partner, come up with two foods which we eat today that combines both old and world new products.
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North American tribes like the Apaches, Sioux, and Blackfoot made use of the horse, changing their cultures into highly traveling hunter societies that roamed the grassy Great Plains in search of the buffalo.
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Unknowingly, the Europeans brought other organisms in the dirt on their boots and the dust on their clothes, such as the seeds of Kentucky bluegrass, dandelions, and daisies.
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Worst of all, in their bodies they carried the germs that caused smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria. Old World diseases quickly devastated the Native Americans.
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90% = 9 out of 10 Native Americans
In the centuries after Columbus’ landfall, as many as 90 percent of the Native Americans died. 90% = 9 out of 10 Native Americans
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Category Old World to New New World to Old Domesticated Animals Bee
Camel Chicken Cow Goat Goose Honey bees Horse Rabbit Pig Sheep Silkworm Water buffalo Alpaca Duck Guinea pig Llama turkey Diseases Bubonic Plague Chicken pox Cholera Flu Malaria Measles Scarlet fever Smallpox Typhoid Yellow fever Spanish pox-syphilis
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