Transcript Columbian Exchange PPT

Colonization
of the
New World
(1750)
Trading in the Old World–
New World Market
• Half of the students will be “New World
Consumers” and the other half will be
“Old World Consumers.”
• Each New World Consumer will be given two New
World food cards.
• Each Old World Consumer will be given two Old
World Food Cards.
• Students will have five minutes to trade their
cards.
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Trading in the Old World–
New World Market (Round 1)
• New World Consumers may only trade with other
New World Consumers. Old World Consumers may
only trade with other Old World Consumers.
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Trading in the Old World–
New World Market (Round 2)
• Students will have another five minutes to trade
their cards.
• You can now trade with anyone in either the New
World or Old World.
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Trading in the Old World–
New World Market
(After Round 2)
• Those with a card that has an “X” on the back have
been exposed to disease(s).
• Old World Consumers: You have immunity from the
disease(s).
• New World Consumers: You have no immunity—you
will perish!
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Two very
different
ecosystems
Two
different
disease
pools
Before 1492
Two sets of
culturally
diverse
peoples
Two
sets of
flora
and
fauna
Columbian Exchange: Food
The Exchange of Plants and Animals
Originally from the Western
Hemisphere
• Potato
• Maize (corn)
• Manioc (cassava, tapioca)
• Sweet potato
• Tomato
• Cacao (chocolate)
• Squash
• Chili peppers
• Pumpkin
• Papaya
• Guava
• Tobacco
• Avocado
• Pineapple
• Beans (most varieties, including
phaseolus vulgaris)
•
•
•
•
Peanuts
Certain cottons
Rubber
Turkeys
Originally from the Eastern
Hemisphere
• Sugar
• Olive oil
• Various grains (Wheat, rice,
rye, barley, oats)
• Grapes
• Coffee
• Horses
• Cattle
• Pigs
• Goats
• Sheep
• Chickens
• Various fruit trees (pear,
apple, peach, orange, lemon,
pomegranate, fig, banana)
• Chick peas
• Melons
• Radishes
• A wide variety of weeds and
grasses
• Cauliflower
• Cabbage
The “Columbian Exchange”

Squash

Avocado

Peppers

Sweet Potatoes

Turkey

Pumpkin

Tobacco

Quinine

Cocoa

Pineapple

Cassava

POTATO

Peanut

TOMATO

Vanilla

MAIZE

Syphilis

Trinkets

Liquor

GUNS

Olive

COFFEE BEAN

Banana

Rice

Onion

Turnip

Honeybee

Barley

Grape

Peach

SUGAR CANE

Oats

Citrus Fruits

Pear

Wheat

HORSE

Cattle

Sheep

Pigs

Smallpox

Flu

Typhus

Measles

Malaria

Diptheria

Whooping Cough