The Columbian Exchange

1. The Columbian Exchange • Sept.6-9,2013 • Objective: Students will evaluate the Columbian Exchange from various perspectives to determine if it was beneficial or detrimental to the world as a whole through texts and written response.

3. Warm • “World Cultures and Geography” • Read p. 104–105, The Outcomes of Exploration. • Answer using RACE: “How did European exploration affect the indigenous peoples of North and South America?”

4. “South America and Europe” • Read p. 211. “How did the Treaty of Tordesillas peacefully divide the Americas between Spain and Portugal?”

7. With your seatmate… • Come up with a more descriptive name for the Treaty of Tordesillas, one that gives a better understanding of what the treaty did. • Write this in your notebook.

8. The Columbian Exchange • The transmission of native plants, animals, and diseases from Europe to the Americas and the Americas to Europe after 1492.

9. Test Your Knowledge • What country/continent did tomatoes originate? • What country/continent did potatoes originate? • What country/continent did oranges/lemons originate?

10. From Europe to the Americas • Crabgrass Pears Pigs • Bananas Daffodils Rice • Oranges Peaches Tulips • Barley Daisies Turnip • Cabbages Dandelions • Sheep Tulips Disease • Carnations Horses • Sugarcane Wheat • Chickens Lemons • Coffee Lettuce • Cows Lilacs • Crabgrass Olives

11. From the Americas to Europe • Avocados Papayas Tobacco • Beans (kidney, navy, lima) Peanuts Tomatoes • Bell peppers Petunias • Black-eyed Susans Pineapples • Vanilla beans Sweet potatoes • Cacao (for chocolate) Poinsettias • Zinnias Chili peppers • Potatoes Corn • Pumpkins Cotton • Rubber Marigolds • Squashes Papayas • Sunflowers Turkeys

12. “South America and Europe”, p. 141.

13. 1. In paragraph form (2 paragraphs) evaluate the Columbian Exchange from the perspective of the Europeans, and Americans. Make sure you provide evidence from the text(Use RACE).2. In a paragraph describe whether the Columbian Exchange was beneficial or detrimental to the world as a whole. Make sure you provide evidence from the text (Use RACE).

14. Alfred Crosby: “In 1491, the world was in many of its aspects and characteristics a minimum of two worlds—the New World, of the Americas, and the Old World, consisting of Eurasia and Africa. Columbus brought them together, and almost immediately and continually ever since, we have had an exchange of native plants, animals and diseases moving back and forth across the oceans between the two worlds. A great deal of the economic, social, political history of the world is involved in the exchange of living organisms between the two worlds.”

15. HOMEWORK • Answer in your notebook. Use RACE: “According to the quote by Alfred Crosby, in what ways did exploration impact the world?”

16. Works cited • http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/ • http://gphscrossroads.wetpaint.com/page/Unit+III+Part+2+Lesson+4+Mercantilism+%26+Columbian+Exchange • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Alfred-W-Crosby-on-the-Columbian-Exchange.html?c=y&page=1 • http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/columbian-exchange • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h436.html • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&c=y&articleID=131157478&articleID=131157478 • http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/imperial-rivalries/resources/treaty-tordesillas-resolving-%E2%80%9C-certain-controversy%E2%80%9D-over