Focus 9/5/12 (Grab your ISN)The Columbian Exchange

• If you could eat all your favorite foods in one day what would the menu look like for that day?

• Create a menu of your favorite foods from Breakfast to Lunch to Dinner. Even include a snack if you like.

• Be detailed in your meal choices! Copy ONLY the chart and the title into your ISN.

Breakfast Chorizo and Egg BurritoStarbucks Coffee

Lunch Pepperoni Pizza (From Pepperonis) Coke

Dinner Mashed Potatoes and white gravyJumbo Lump Crab CakesCrab Legs with butter sauceRoot Beer Float

Put in the Focus in the Focus section of your ISN

Columbian ExchangeWhen the peoples of the

Eastern and Western hemispheres met what do you think was exchanged between the two groups?

Columbian Exchange

• Exchange of goods: food, medicine, technology, clothing

• Exchange of ideas: government, religion, arts, languages

The Exchange went both ways: Europeans effected Americans AND

Americans effected Europeans

Put in your ISN

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato• Cocoa

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox• TyphusPage 71 of your

Textbook

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato• Cocoa

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse*******• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox• TyphusPage 71 of your

Textbook

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato*****• Cocoa

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox• TyphusPage 71 of your

Textbook

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato• Cocoa

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana*****• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox• TyphusPage 71 of your

Textbook

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato• Cocoa*****

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox• TyphusPage 71 of your

Textbook

Columbian Exchange• Americas:• Maize (Corn)• Potato• Sweet Potato• Beans• Peanut• Squash• Pumpkin• Peppers• Pineapple• Tomato• Cocoa

• Europe, Africa, & Asia• Wheat• Sugar• Banana• Rice• Grape (wine)• Olive oil• Dandelions• Horse• Pig• Cow• Goat• Chicken• Smallpox*****• Typhus*****Page 71 of your

Textbook

Native American Skills• Snow shoes• Fur trapping• Canoeing• Native American political structures:

– Ben Franklin and the League of the Iroquois

Native American WordsCan you speak Powhatan, the

language of Pocahontas?• Moccasin• Hickory• Raccoon• Opossum• Persimmon

Exploration Cause and

Effect!Put in your ISN

CauseEuropeans want more goods from Asia

Muslims gain control of trade between Europe and AsiaRulers of European nations seek ways to increase their wealthEuropean nations look for a sea route to AsiaColumbus reaches the Americas

EXPLORATION OF THE AMERICAS

EffectsSpain builds a Royal empire in the AmericasEnglish, French, and Dutch set up colonies in North AmericaFrench Fur Trade Begins Millions of Native Americans die from “European” diseasesSlave traders bring enslaved Africans to the AmericasFood from the Americas are introduced into Europe

Effects TodayThe United States is a multicultural society

American foods, such as corn and potatoes, are important to people’s diets around the world

The Columbian Exchange changed the world because

ID Question9/5/12

Umbrella Question

Describe the precedents set by the early governments established in the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies. Then, explain their long-term

effects on the United States.

Copy this statement onto the back of the handout you picked up.

Identifying Artifacts

• What facts do you know?• What can you infer from the facts about

the artifacts?