1. A time of Exploration or Invasion? You decide!!!
The Columbian Exchange
A time of Exploration or Invasion?
You decide!!!

2. Directions
Today you will be completing a documents based question over the Columbian Exchange.
What is a documents based question you ask?
It is when you are asked a question and must examine multiple documents/sources in order to be able to answer the question. The documents can include articles, quotes, pictures, graphs, etc…

3. The Big Question
Did the Columbian Exchange have a positive or negative impact on the New World?

4. Document A
1. During the exchange, things went both ways. Name 1 item that the New World gained from the Columbian exchange that had a negative impact on the people.
2. Name 1 item that the New World gained from the Columbian exchange that had a positive impact on the people.

5. Document B Native American Population of Central Mexico
3. What was the estimated population of
Central Mexico in 1519? 1600?
4. What is the difference between the two numbers and why did that occur?

6. Document C 5. Describe what the artist is showing in the drawing?
6. Who’s point of view is being represented in the drawing, the native Americans or the Spanish conquistadors?
Caption: Even as the Aztecs fought to defend their capital from Hernán Cortés and his men, they fell victim to diseases introduced by the Spaniards. This drawing depicts Indians suffering from smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases introduced by the Europeans. The symbols near the subjects’ mouths represent
speech.

7. Document D “The Impact of Disease”
The charge of genocide is largely sustained by figures showing the precipitous decline of the Indian population. Although scholars debate the exact numbers, in Alvin Josephy's estimate, the Indian population fell from between fifteen and twenty million when the white man first arrived to a fraction of that 150 years later. Undoubtedly the Indians perished in great numbers. Yet although European enslavement of Indians and the Spanish forced labor system extracted a heavy toll in lives, the vast majority of Indian casualties occurred not as a result of hard labor or deliberate destruction but because of contagious diseases that the Europeans transmitted to the Indians. The Europeans, for their part, gave the Indians measles and smallpox. Since the Indians had not developed any resistance or immunity to these unfamiliar ailments, they perished in catastrophic numbers.
Source: “The Crimes of Christopher Columbus” Dinesh D'Souza
7. Natives were the first slaves in America, And this took its toll on the native population. But what was the number one killer of the natives? Why did the natives die from such things?
8. The Source is from a book “The crimes of Christopher Columbus” Why do you believe the author chose that title for the book?

8. Document E
9. What were some of the things Europeans brought in the picture? Why are they significant?
10. Do you believe these new things were positive or negative for North and South
America?