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The Columbian Exchange Group Work

1.  What is the definition of the Columbian Exchange?

2.  What were some drawbacks of the two halves of the world coming together?

PLANTS:

3. 

Plant and Food Origins
Plant / Place of Origin
Potato
Tomato
Sugar Cane
Maize/Corn
Wheat
Citrus Fruits & Apples

4.  List the important facts regarding sugar and its production.

5.  What important contribution did slaves make to the food sources in the Americas?

6.  How was China affected by the Columbian Exchange?

ANIMALS:

7.  For what reason did Europeans have more immunity to endemic diseases, like smallpox?

8.  What were the only domesticated animals that native people had in North America?

9.  In South America?

10.  Of what use were horses to the Apache of the North American Southwest?

WRAP IT UP:

11.  Use all of the information you’ve gotten from your homework and this reading. On the map of the world, fill in the animals, foods, & diseases which were exchanged between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas during the Columbian Exchange. Use arrows to indicate direction.

The Columbian Exchange and Slavery

Use the articles to answer the following questions:

12.  What is the Atlantic System and why was it a big deal?

13.  Use the blank map and illustrate the routes and items that moved in the system of Triangular Trade, which was one small special trade route within the larger Atlantic System. Indicate directional flow with an arrow and label all parts and products, being sure to add a special label for the portion known as the “Middle Passage.”

14.  For what purpose did new African slave trading empires like Dahomey need weapons?

15.  To what locations were most slaves imported? For what purpose?

16.  What was different about chattel slavery involving West Africans that had changed from other types of slavery existing before it?

Potato Video: The Spud That Fed the World

17.  Where is the potato from?

18.  When did the potato get to Europe?

19.  Where did it go in Europe?

20.  Why were people afraid of the potato in some parts of Europe?

21.  How did the King of Prussia convince his people to eat the potato?

22.  Where was the impact of the potato the greatest in Europe?

23.  How many pounds of potatoes did the average Irish person eat in one year?

24.  What happened in the late 1800s in Ireland? How did this affect the Irish peasants?

25.  How many people died as a result of what happened?

26.  What was another result of the Irish famine?