7 th Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes “The Columbian Exchange”
7 th Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes “The Columbian Exchange”
Chapter 16-1 Cornell Notes: Terms
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Plants and Animals Heading 1 Columbian Exchange: trade of plants/animals/ideas between Old and New Worlds; Old World: Europe; New World: Americas; Europeans brought: bananas, sugarcane, oranges, onions lettuce, cows, goats, sheep, horses, pigs, chickens; Europeans took: tomatoes, potatoes, beans, squash, avocados, pineapples, tobacco, chili peppers, turkey; Africa: enjoyed sweet potatoes, peanuts; China: enjoyed peanuts, maize.
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Plants and Animals Heading 1 Performance Task : Please discuss with your partner one example of an Old World food exchanged with a New World food.
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Culture and Technology Heading 2 Europeans also changed religion and language in the New World; Europeans brought technology and animals like horses for travel, oxen/plows for farming, guns/steel/wheel; innovations help create new industries like plantations and mining. Protestant and Catholic missionaries converted people, set up language schools;
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Culture and Technology Heading 2 Question: Which of the following is not an example of technology used during the Age of Exploration? 2. wheel 3. steam engine1. plow
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Society and the Economy Heading 3 Sugarcane plantations, mines made $$ for Spain, Portugal; American Indians slave labor, many died of abuse; de las Casas’ solution was to use Africans instead; Spanish priest Bartolome de las Casas complained; new society based on racism, white Europeans “superior” to dark-skinned Indians, Africans + mixed blood.
Chapter 16-2 Cornell Notes Society and the Economy Heading 3 Speculation: Why was slave labor used on the plantation?