Good Mafternoon! 3/6/14 EQ: What is the Columbian Exchange and how did it impact Latin America? HW: Study Vocab flash cards. Vocab quiz on Vocab quiz on Friday. Friday. SPONGE 1.Pick up a Columbian Exchange handout and glue it on page 50 2.Update your TOC 3.With your group, open your mystery bag and begin reading each clue. Date Date # Title Title 3-6-14 50 Colombian Exchange Notes
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Good Mafternoon! 3/6/14EQ: What is the Columbian Exchange and how did it impact Latin America?HW: Study Vocab flash cards. Vocab quiz on Friday. Vocab quiz on Friday.
SPONGE1.Pick up a Columbian Exchange handout and glue it on page 502.Update your TOC3.With your group, open your mystery bag and begin reading each clue.
DateDate ## Title Title
3-6-14 50 Colombian Exchange Notes
Directions
With your group, each person needs to take out a clue and read it aloud.
Pass the bag around so that everyone reads a clue
Continue until all the clues are gone. At the end, make a hypothesis what
the item is.
The Columbian Exchange
Unit 7 Notes
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The explorers created contact between Europe & the Americas.
Interaction with Native Americans led to big cultural changes.
Exchange of physical elements: animals, plants, diseases, weapons, ideas, etc.
Different Foods– Exchange of foods & animals had a dramatic impact on later societies– Over time, crops native to the Americas became staples in the diets of
Europeans– Foods provided nutrition, helped people live longer– Until contact with Americas, Europeans had never tried tomatoes--by 1600s,
tomatoes included in Italian cookbooks Economics
– Activities like cattle ranching and coffee growing not possible without Columbian Exchange
– Traditional cuisines changed because of Columbian Exchange (Think- Italy without the Tomato, Belgium without chocolate…)