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Whats your favorite dinner? List the basic ingredients you need for that dinner! (Example: If youre eating a cheeseburger and fries, dont forget the condiments!) Slide 2 Columbian Exchange Directions: Read pages 44-45 in the North Carolina textbook and answer the following questions by restating the question in your answer in complete sentences. 1.Write a descriptive definition of the Columbian Exchange. 2.What two crops taken from the Americas and brought to Europe were the most important? Explain why. 3.List some animals brought to the Americas from Europe. 4.Although they were not considered part of the Columbian Exchange, what was brought to the Americas from Africa and what were they used for? 5.Write one impact that you think the Columbian Exchange had on the culture of the Americans and one impact it had on Europeans? 6.What negative impact did the Columbian Exchange have on the Native Americans? 7.Summarize in your own words what the author means in the last paragraph when he says the Columbian Exchange BROUGHT THE WORLD CLOSER TOGETHER. Slide 3 How do your dinner choices change if the Old World and New World never met? Slide 4 Slide 5 From New World (what they had) Alpaca Guinea Pig Raccoon Llama Turkey Avocado Beans Cashew Chili pepper Cocoa Cotton Corn/maize Peanut Pecan Pineapple Potato Pumpkin Rubber Strawberry Squash Sunflower Sweet Potato Tobacco Tomato Vanilla From Old World (what they had) Camel Cat Cattle Donkey Chicken Goat Horse Pigs Rabbit Rats Sheep Bananas Black pepper Beans Beets Broccoli Cabbage Carrots Coffee Cotton Citrus Eggplant Garlic Hemp Indigo Lettuce Onion Okra Peach Pear Peas Radish Rice Sugarcane Wheat Yams Slide 6 Columbus returns to Spain! Slide 7 Slide 8 In 1972, the historian Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., proposed that Christopher Columbus's voyages to the New World produced even greater consequences biologically than they did culturally. The Columbian Exchange is the term Crosby coined to describe the worldwide redistribution of plants, animals, and diseases that resulted from the initial contacts between Europeans and American Indians. This process had a profound impact on both societies. The world would NEVER be the same. The Columbian Exchange Slide 9 Disease The natives' lack of immunity to European diseases resulted in decreases among native populations that reached as high as 90 percent. Political and spiritual leaders died and left traditions in disarray; subsistence cycles were disrupted; family life was devastated. These losses put American Indians at a disadvantage when they fought to protect their lands or attempted to negotiate treaties with imperial powers. Largely immune to the diseases that corroded native life, Europeans were able to take and hold an advantage over the tribes, turning their attention to learning to use the domesticated animals and plants they encountered in the New World.