Columbian Exchange

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

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?

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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Poll

Does this seem like a fair fight?

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

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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Latin America Countries: Seterra: https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3016?c=27Z2K

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