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Effects of Christopher Columbus

Effects of Christopher Columbus. Pair Share. With your neighbor, discuss the following quote, and be prepared to share your answers with the class: “Before 1492, there were no tomatoes in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no potatoes in Ireland, no oranges in Florida, and no cattle in Texas.”.

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Effects of Christopher Columbus

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  1. Effects of Christopher Columbus

  2. Pair Share • With your neighbor, discuss the following quote, and be prepared to share your answers with the class: “Before 1492, there were no tomatoes in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no potatoes in Ireland, no oranges in Florida, and no cattle in Texas.”

  3. Impact of Columbus’s Voyages • A new era of interactions between Europe and the Americas had begun • Spain and Portugal wanted to add new land to their empires • Line of Demarcation (1493)- a line that divided the Atlantic Ocean. Spain could claim all land west of the line. The line was later extended due to the Treaty of Tordesillas

  4. Other Explorers • 1501- Amerigo Vespucci convinced Europeans that the land they thought was Asia was a new world

  5. Other Explorers • 1519- Ferdinand Magellan- Portuguese navigator who went around the southern tip of South America; he was then killed in the Philippine Islands • 1522- 1 ship and 18 people of Magellan’s original crew made it to Spain. These sailors were the first to circumnavigate, or go all the way around, the globe; this was a 40,000 mile journey

  6. Columbian Exchange • The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia

  7. Columbian Exchange

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