1. 1/20Do Now What is your favorite food? What are the ingredients (meats/fruits/vegetable/etc.) and where do they come from?

2. The Columbian Exchange

7. Who benefited from the Columbian Exchange the most, the New World or the Old World?

8. Columbian Exchange  Columbus brought new plants and animals to the New World (Americas).  The New World also had plants & animals that Europe did not.  The spread of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between Europe and America became known as the Columbian Exchange.

9. From the Americas  Tomatoes  Potatoes  Chocolate  Peppers  Pumpkins  Corn  Peanuts  Beans From Europe/Africa/Asia  Wheat  Sugar  Grapes  Cattle  Horses  Pigs  Coffee  Bananas  Chicken

10. From Europe/Africa/Asia  Wheat  Sugar  Grapes  Cattle  Horses  Pigs  Coffee  Bananas  Chicken

11. New Ways of Life  Corn and potatoes swept through Europe  Easy to grow and store  These crops helped feed a rapidly growing European population, beginning several centuries of European world domination.  Potatoes provided poor Irish peasants with nutritious food – but it backfired (Irish Potato Famine)  Horses and donkeys brought to the Americas made life easier by improving transportation and hunting.

12. Spread of Disease  Diseases brought from Europe killed 90% of the Native Americans (anywhere from 1,000,000 - 15,000,000 people)  Native Americans had no resistance to the disease – Europeans had built up immunities over the centuries through close contact with various animals and bacteria.  People living at this time did not know about germs or the causes of diseases

13. What did the Native Americans think was happening? Why were they all dying?

14. Disease  When European moved inland, they encountered ghost towns of dying Native Americans  How did this affect the European colonists and their expanding settlements

15. Divine Intervention  “The good hand of God favored our beginnings,” William Bradford said, “by sweeping away great multitudes of the natives … that he might make room for us.”  They believed that by wiping out the native populations, God was clearing room for the Europeans to settle.

16. How would life today be different without the Columbian Exchange?  Corn and peanuts became staples in African cuisine – they grow well there, enriched Africans’ diets.  Italian food without tomatoes?  Irish food without Potatoes?  No chocolate in Belgium?