1. Continuing the Age of Exploration
Daily EQ: How might the world be different today without the innovative idea of exploration?
Read pages quietly and complete the activity

2. The Columbian Exchange
One of history’s great turning points!!

3. Exploration led to an enormous exchange of people, plants, animals, technology and ideas that would change the lives of people in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

4. Because this global interaction began with Columbus, it is called the Columbian Exchange.

5. The Columbian Exchange
What came from where?
List 8 things from each “world” on your paper.

6. Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, Mexican food with no rice and bean dish, the Irish without potatoes, chocolate without sugar. Make a list of five products or foods that combine things from different continents.

7. Think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange
Think about the effects of the Columbian Exchange. Were they all positive? How were different groups effected differently?

9. Complete the following critical thinking question, “Why is the Columbian Exchange considered one of the largest turning points in history?”
Be sure to FULLY complete the question.
Describe the conditions before the event, the event itself and the effects on both populations (positive and negative).