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Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange. Power point created by Robert L. Martinez. http://webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/02662-050924133111/process.htm. http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm.

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Columbian Exchange

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  1. Columbian Exchange Power point created by Robert L. Martinez http://webquest.org/questgarden/lessons/02662-050924133111/process.htm http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm

  2. Two ecosystems (naturally evolved networks of organisms in a stable environment) commingled and clashed when Columbus waded ashore the Americas. The flora and fauna of the Old and New Worlds had been separated for thousands of years. http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2003/03/06.html

  3. Native New World plants such as tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and especially the lowly potato eventually revolutionized the world economy as well as the European diet, feeding the rapid population growth of the Old World. http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm

  4. These foods were among the most important Indian gifts to the Europeans and the rest of the world. Perhaps three-fifths of the crops cultivated around the globe today originated in the Americas. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbianb.htm

  5. In exchange the Europeans introduced Old World crops and animals to the Americas. Columbus returned to the Caribbean islands in 1493 with seventeen ships that unloaded twelve hundred men with cattle, pigs, and horses. http://www.organic-pork.co.uk/animals.asp

  6. North American tribes like the Apaches, Sioux, and Blackfoot swiftly adopted the horse, transforming their cultures into highly mobile, wide-ranging hunter societies that roamed the grassy Great Plains in pursuit of the buffalo. http://www.old-picture.com/indians/Apache-Riding-Horses.htm

  7. The horses soon reached the North American mainland through Mexico and in less than two centuries had spread as far as Canada. http://www.irwinator.com/120/ch2.htm

  8. Sugarcane plantation Slaves packed on a slave ship Columbus brought seedlings of sugar cane, which thrived in the warm Caribbean climate. A “sugar revolution” took place in the European diet, spurring the slavery of millions of Africans to work the cane fields of the New World. Slavery

  9. Unknowingly, the Europeans brought other organisms in the dirt on their boots and the dust on their clothes, such as the seeds of Kentucky bluegrass, dandelions, and daisies. http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm

  10. Worst of all, in their bodies they carried the germs that caused smallpox, yellow fever, and malaria. Indeed Old World diseases quickly devastated the Native Americans. http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm

  11. Enslavement and armed aggression took their toll, but the deadliest killers were microbes, not muskets. The lethal germs spread among the New World peoples with the speed and force of a hurricane. http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbianb.htm

  12. In the centuries after Columbus’ landfall, as many as 90 percent of the Native Americans died, a demographic catastrophe without parallel in human history. http://www.education.mcgill.ca/EDEE-382B-01/mccaig/project

  13. http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~vms/carlton/columbus1.htm

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