1. The Columbian Exchange

2. Warm Up:
What happens when you mix blue and red paint? Yellow and red paint?
Can you get back the original colors?
What specific things might the two different colors of paint represent when dealing with the first interactions between natives and Europeans in the New World?

3. Video Notes
Create the chart below on the LEFT-side of your notebook under the starter journal to take notes while we watch the video.
Write down as many details as you can get from the video.
New World
(Americas)
Old World
(Europe)

4. Post-Video Reflection
What did you fill in on your chart?
Observations from video?
New World -> Old World
(Americas) -> (Europe)
Old World -> New World
(Europe) -> (Americas)

5. Basic Definition – Columbian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange represents the movement of plants, animals, diseases, and people between Europe, the Americas, and Africa following Columbus’ discovery of the New World.

6. New World to Old World - PLANTS
pumpkins
peanuts
maize (corn)
potatoes
beans
squash
tobacco
cacao (source of chocolate)

7. New World to Old World - ANIMALS
llamas
alpacas
guinea pigs
turkeys

8. New World to Old World - DISEASES
Hepatitis
Polio
Tuberculosis

9. Old World to New World - PLANTS
rice
melons
wheat
barley
oats
coffee
sugarcane
bananas

10. Old World to New World - ANIMALS
horses
cattle
pigs
sheep
goats
chickens

11. Old World to New World - DISEASES
measles
chicken pox
smallpox
yellow fever
malaria
influenza (flu)

13. Effects of the Columbian Exchange
Both hemispheres were introduced to new foods and animals that changed entire societies.
Potatoes and corn became major food sources for Europeans allowing populations to increase greatly.

14. Effects of the Columbian Exchange (Continued)
The introduction of pigs, cows, and horses gave new food sources and new animals for the Native Americans to use.
The diseases the Europeans brought with them killed up to 90% of the Native Americans in the New World.

15. Effects of the Columbian Exchange (Continued)
European conquest of the Native Americans was made easy by the effect disease had on the Natives.