Colonization of the New World (1750)

Trading in the Old World– New World Market Half of the students will be “New World Consumers” and the other half will be “Old World Consumers.” Each New World Consumer will be given two New World food cards. Each Old World Consumer will be given two Old World Food Cards. Students will have five minutes to trade their cards. F OCUS M IDDLE S CHOOL W ORLD H ISTORY © C OUNCIL FOR E CONOMIC E DUCATION, N EW Y ORK, NY

Trading in the Old World– New World Market (Round 1) New World Consumers may only trade with other New World Consumers. Old World Consumers may only trade with other Old World Consumers. F OCUS M IDDLE S CHOOL W ORLD H ISTORY © C OUNCIL FOR E CONOMIC E DUCATION, N EW Y ORK, NY

Trading in the Old World – New World Market (Round 2) Students will have another five minutes to trade their cards. You can now trade with anyone in either the New World or Old World. F OCUS M IDDLE S CHOOL W ORLD H ISTORY © C OUNCIL FOR E CONOMIC E DUCATION, N EW Y ORK, NY

Trading in the Old World – New World Market (After Round 2) Those with a card that has an “X” on the back have been exposed to disease(s). Old World Consumers: You have immunity from the disease(s). New World Consumers: You have no immunity—you will perish! F OCUS M IDDLE S CHOOL W ORLD H ISTORY © C OUNCIL FOR E CONOMIC E DUCATION, N EW Y ORK, NY

Before 1492 Two very different ecosystems Two different disease pools Two sets of flora and fauna Two sets of culturally diverse peoples

Columbian Exchange: Food

The Exchange of Plants and Animals Originally from the Western Hemisphere Potato Maize (corn) Manioc (cassava, tapioca) Sweet potato Tomato Cacao (chocolate) Squash Chili peppers Pumpkin Papaya Guava Tobacco Avocado Pineapple Beans (most varieties, including phaseolus vulgaris) Peanuts Certain cottons Rubber Turkeys Originally from the Eastern Hemisphere Sugar Olive oil Various grains (Wheat, rice, rye, barley, oats) Grapes Coffee Horses Cattle Pigs Goats Sheep Chickens Various fruit trees (pear, apple, peach, orange, lemon, pomegranate, fig, banana) Chick peas Melons Radishes A wide variety of weeds and grasses Cauliflower Cabbage

The “Columbian Exchange”  Squash  Avocado  Peppers  Sweet Potatoes  Turkey  Pumpkin  Tobacco  Quinine  Cocoa  Pineapple  Cassava  POTATO  Peanut  TOMATO  Vanilla  MAIZE  Syphilis  Olive  COFFEE BEAN  Banana  Rice  Onion  Turnip  Honeybee  Barley  Grape  Peach  SUGAR CANE  Oats  Citrus Fruits  Pear  Wheat  HORSE  Cattle  Sheep  Pigs  Smallpox  Flu  Typhus  Measles  Malaria  Diptheria  Whooping Cough  Trinkets  Liquor  GUNS