1. Columbian Exchange

2. Write down all the ingredients you see in the picture below.
OLD WORLD
Bread
Beef
Cheese
Lettuce
NEW WORLD
Corn
Potato
Tomato
Burstein, S & Shek, Richart; World History: Ancient Civilizations Through the Renaissance; Houghton Mifflin, pg. 599

3. Today, we can find many of these ingredients in our local grocery stores. Our lives our impacted by the Columbian Exchange on a daily basis!

5. The Columbian Exchange
What is it?
The Columbian Exchange
the exchange of plants, animals and ideas between the New World (Americas) and the Old World.

7. New World Potatoes Corn Chocolate Tobacco
List of goods brought TO the Europe…..
Potatoes
Corn
Chocolate
Tobacco

8. Positive(s)…
Foods brought over to the Old World helped improve health, nutrition and caused a major spike in the population.
Tomatoes & Chocolate became widely popular.
Tobacco became a HUGE money maker for many Europeans!

9. Positive(s)… How to Farm Gods, stories
The Native Americans also shared many of their beliefs with the Europeans.
How to Farm
Gods, stories

10. Negative(s)
Potatoes became heavily relied upon in some areas of Europe.
This eventually led to a great famine which forced a great migration to the US colonies during the 19th century.
Tobacco is known to have and still cause major health issues among people.

11. Livestock (pigs, sheep, cattle & chicken)
Old World
List of goods brought TO the New World…..
Grains
Tropical Fruit
Coffee
Livestock (pigs, sheep, cattle & chicken)
Horses
Firearms/Gunpowder
Slavery
Diseases

12. Positive(s)…
Foods brought over to the New World helped the Native American diets.
Horses helped to improve life for Native Americans living on the Great Plans.
Firearms helped to improve hunting skills
Can you think of a reason why this could be a negative impact?

13. Positive(s)… Christianity Language
Europeans also shared many of their beliefs with the Native Americans….
Christianity
Language

14. Negative(s)
Diseases were also exchanged Europeans brought over diseases such as smallpox, measles, and flu.
The Native Americans had never encountered these diseases before, had no immunity, and died…

15. Negative(s)
Many of the goods brought over TO the New World required “extensive labor!”
As a result, the Europeans attempted to force Native Americans into working the fields. However, this plan back fired (many Natives were dying due do diseases) and Europeans were forced to look for an alternative method.

16. The Slave Trade
Europeans began to bring Africans over to the Americas to assist with the heavy work load.
Overtime, this became the largest forced migration in history!
To replace the Natives, Europeans began to import African slaves (around 12 million).
Conditions Africans faced on their journey to America were unimaginable.

17. More bad news…
The slave trade created a disaster for Africa. European slavers lured Africans into wars.
Even captured women and children were forced into slavery.
Africa lost its youngest and healthiest workers that supported the economy.
Even after the slave trade ended in the 1800’s, Africa continued to feel the effects.

18. What’s for Dinner? Pineapple Turkey Potato Avocado Pumpkin Beans
Cattle
Chicken
Goat
Horse
Pigs/Sheep
Bananas
Black pepper
Beans/Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Coffee
Cotton
Citrus
Eggplant
Garlic
Lettuce
Onion
Okra
Peach
Pear
Peas
Radish
Rice
Sugarcane
Wheat
Yams
Pineapple
Potato
Pumpkin
Strawberry
Squash
Sunflower
Sweet Potato
Tobacco
Tomato
Vanilla
Turkey
Avocado
Beans
Cashew
Chili pepper
Cocoa
Cotton
Corn/maize
Peanut
Pecan