Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange
Step 1, brainstorm a list of things you think might have gone from the “new world” to the “old world”.
Step 2, brainstorm a list of things you think might have gone from the “old World” to the “new World”.
Step 3, go out on the internet and do a search on the “Columbian Exchange”
Step 4, visit this website;
http://faculty.smu.edu/rKemper/cf_3333/columbian_exchange.JPG
Step 5, Create a list of what you think the 5 most important "things" each side got, then write a paragraph explaining who you think got the better end to the deal.
Step 6, Visit another student's blog and comment on their choices (be respectful)

5 comments:

melissa world history said...

What the New World gave to the Old World
1. Chocolate
2. Tobacco
3. Sunflower
4. Peanut
5. Vanilla
What the Old World gave to the New World
1. Horse
2. Pig
3. Chicken
4. Sugar cane
5. Water melon


Which side do I think got the better end of the deal?
Well I think both side got it equal. I believe this because both got things that they needed and didn’t have before. The New World did get more animals but the Old World got things that will make their food and drinks better. Every one is happy because they got things they needed fast. So I think both sides got a good deal.

marissa world history said...

The Columbian exchange brought over food products over to America. They also brought gunpowder and horses to America as well.the food they brought was corn, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers,pumpkins, squash, cacao, beans and sweet potatoes.The Americans were introduced to livestock such as cattle,pigs and sheep as well as grain such as wheat.Asia brought over onions, citrus fruit,bananas coffee beans, olives grapes rice and sugar cane.

shaunna world history said...

New to Old Old to New
Horses Tobacco
Cattle Pepper
Pigs Chocolate
Sugar Cane Sunflower
Watermelon Peanuts

I think both got it good because they have/ had good resources to get what they got. I think that in the old days they had it pretty easy because they grew their own food and killed their own food. So that’s my opinion on this subject.

Dillon said...

New World from Old World
Animals
1. Alpaca
2. Dog
3. Guinea Pig
4. Llama
5. Turkey
Plants
1. Bean
2. Blueberry
3. Bell Pepper
4. Chili Pepper
5. Cotton

Diseases

1. Syphilis
2. Great Pox
3. Yaws
4. Yellow Fever

Old World from New World
Animals
1. Bee
2. Cat
3. Camel
4. Chicken
5. Dog
6. Goat
7. Goose
8. Horse

Plants
1. Garlic
2. Hemp
3. Almond
4. Apple
5. Banana’s
Diseases
1. Sleeping sickness
2. Smallpox
3. Typhoid
4. Scarlet Fever

Well i think America got the good end out of the deal because the Europians had way more stuff. But i'm not really saying that they didn't get anything good cause they got our turkey and blueberry's and all sorts of stuff. I'm glad we did the exchange because other wise we wouldn't have as much stuff as we do right now.

dalton tucker said...

OLD WORLD: Corn, potato, tobacco, chocolate, vanilla.
NEW WORLD: horse, chicken, pig, banana, cattle.

I think that the new world had the best supplies because the hade all the meat [pig, chicken, cattle.] because you cant really live with out meat I mea you can if you want to but you have to have at least a little bit of meat and the old world did not have no livestock.