Columbian Exchange

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History

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5th - 7th Grade

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Easy

Katie Murdock

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3 Slides • 6 Questions

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Do you know why you love French fries and where the potato comes from?

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Categorize

Options (11)

Chocolate/ Cocoa

Pumpkins/Squash

Peanuts

Pineapples

Potatoes

Corn

Chickens

Horses

Rice

Coffee

Sugar

Organize items into which Continents you believe they originated.

The Americas

Europe/Africa/Asia

How correct were you? What's missing??

Open Ended

"What is the staple [main food] of the Bantu of southern Africa? Maize [corn], an American food. What is the staple of Kansas and Argentina? Wheat, an Old World [European] food...

How many of the six billion of us are dependent for our nourishment on crops and meat animals that didn't cross the great oceans until after 1492?"

- Alfred Crosby the inventor of the word "Columbian Exchange"

Question: 1. What point is Crosby trying to make about the main foods of Southern Africa, Kansas, and Argentina?

2. What are the global impacts?

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Reorder

Reorder the following

Christopher Columbus made contact with the Taino.

Spain benefited off the labor of enslaved Native Americans and Africans.

Following the defeat of the Aztec Empire, New Spain was established in The Americas.

After war with the Incan Empire Spain claimed the land from present day California to Chile.

The Netherlands purchase present day Manhattan from Indigenous people for $24 ($951.08 with inflation)

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Does this seem like a fair fight?

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Multiple Choice

Why do you think Native American populations decreased from around 25 million people to around 5 million from the year 1518 to 1548?

They decided to leave the Americas.

Increased availability of food sources.

Peaceful interactions with Europeans.

The spread of diseases, slavery, and war.

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