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Jumpstart . Describe, in detail, the best meal you’ve ever eaten. Maybe it’s your favorite. Is it homemade or from a restaurant?. New Patterns of Trade. Columbian Exchange. Main Idea

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  1. Jumpstart Describe, in detail, the best meal you’ve ever eaten. Maybe it’s your favorite. Is it homemade or from a restaurant?

  2. New Patterns of Trade Columbian Exchange Main Idea The voyages of Columbus led to a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.

  3. The Exchange of Goods Sharing Discoveries • Plants, animals developed in very different ways in hemispheres • Europeans—no potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, turkeys • People in Americas—no coffee, oranges, rice, wheat, sheep, cattle • Arrival of Europeans in Americas changed all this • Previously unknown foods taken back to Europe • Familiar foods brought to Americas by colonists The Columbian Exchange Introduction of “work animals” to the Americas was very significant. It provided people with a new source of labor and transportation.

  4. Effects of the Columbian Exchange • Different Foods • Exchange of foods and animals had dramatic impact on later societies • Over time crops native to Americas became staples in diets of Europeans • Foods provided substantial nutrition and helped people live longer • Traditional cuisines changed because of Columbian Exchange • Economics • Activities like Texas cattle ranching and Brazilian coffee growing not possible without Columbian Exchange • Italian Food Without Tomatoes? • Until contact with Americas, Europeans had never tried tomatoes • Most Europeans thought tomatoes were poisonous • By late 1600s, tomatoes had begun to be included in Italian cookbooks

  5. Effects of the Columbian Exchange • The Introduction of New Diseases • Native Americans had no natural resistance to European diseases • Smallpox, measles, influenza, malaria killed millions • Population of central Mexico may have decreased by more than 30% in the 10 yrs following European contact • Devastating Impact • Native American population continued to decline for centuries due to these epidemics (outbreak of disease) • Inca Empire decreased from 13 million in 1492 to 2 million in 1600

  6. Find the Main Idea What were two lasting effects of the Columbian Exchange? Answer(s): possible answers—changes in cuisine, changes in crops grown around the world, epidemics

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