Latin America SS6H1 (B)

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Latin America SS6H1 (B)

• Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange on
  Latin America Europe in terms of the decline
  of the indigenous people, agricultural change,
  and the introduction of the horse.

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In Other Words.

• Explain how the exchange of goods, animals, and
  diseases between Europe and Latin America caused
  the native population of Latin America to
  decrease, changed how and what they farmed ate,
  and changed how they traveled from one place to
  another.

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The Columbian Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange is the term used to
  identify the exchange of goods, animals, people,
  and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
• It is called the Columbian Exchange because it
  began after, and as a result of, Columbus
  discovering the Americas

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Columbian Exchange
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• The Old World usually means Europe, but can
  sometimes also include Africa, because these
  parts of the world were already known to Europe
  and its explorers it was old news
• The New World means the Americas (both North
  South America), because these lands were new to
  Europe and their explorers who discovered these
  new lands

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The Old World
Europe, Africa, Western Asia (Everything in the
Eastern Hemisphere except for Australia)
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The New World
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The Exchange of Plants

• One important part of the Columbian Exchange was
  the exchange of food plants
• Cocoa, corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes grew
  in Central South America were shipped back to
  Europe
• Coffee, peaches, sugar, wheat grew in Europe
  and were shipped to the Americas

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Crops Grown in the Americas Shipped back to
Europe
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Crops Grown in Europe Brought to the Americas
by Europeans
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New Food New Diet

• Having these new crops meant that what people
  ate, both in Europe in the Americas, changed
  drastically
• Not only did this mean a larger variety of foods
  to choose from but also meant a more complete and
  nutritious diet insuring that people were more
  likely to get all of the vitamins, minerals etc.
  their bodies need to grow be healthy

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A More Complete, Balanced Diet
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European Diseases

• While many things Europeans brought with them to
  the Americas were useful to the natives, often
  helping to make their lives better easier,
  Europeans also unknowingly brought something else
  that would devastate the native population
  throughout the Americas Diseases

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• The Europeans brought with them many diseases
  that the native people had never seen or been
  exposed to before.
• Their bodies did not have immunities (natural
  resistance) to these new diseases and their
  healers did not know how to treat them

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• Some of the diseases Europeans brought with them
  to the Americas were influenza (flu), measles,
  small pox, and typhoid fever.

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• Between 50 and 75 of the indigenous (native)
  population of some tribes in the Americas lost
  their lives to these new European diseases.
• Far more indigenous people died from these
  diseases than in battle with European
  explorers/conquerors

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New Animals From Europe

• Europeans also introduced certain animals to the
  New World.
• These included pigs, cows, goats, and bees

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The Horse

• The horse was another animal Europeans introduced
  to the indigenous people of the New World
• Horses were by far the most important animal the
  Europeans brought to the New World

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• Horses made it possible for the natives to travel
  faster and farther than ever before
• They made trade and travel easier, which made it
  possible for the natives to spread their culture
  and knowledge farther, reaching other native
  tribes they had never come into contact with

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• This sharing of goods, culture, and information
  made life better for all people living in the
  Americas

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Triangular Trade

• One of the most important results of The
  Columbian Exchange (the exchange of goods,
  people, and diseases between the Old World and
  the New World), was a trade pattern called the
  Triangular Trade

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• The Triangular trade was named after the shape
  that its trade routes, coming and going from
  Europe, Africa, and the Americas, made.

North America
Europe
Africa
South America
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• The trade routes of the Triangular Trade carried
  the goods and people that were also a part of the
  Columbian Exchange
• But, the Columbian Exchange was the trading of
  goods, people, and diseases between Europe and
  the New World (it included any exchange of
  anything between the Old World and the New
  World)
• The Triangular Trade were the specific trade
  routes of specific goods between specific places

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• In the Triangular Trade
• Raw Materials (examples cut trees and animal
  hides that have not been processed into finished
  goods that can be sold) are shipped from the
  Americas, where they are grown and harvested, to
  Europe where they will be processed and turned
  into finished goods, like rocking chairs and
  winter coats.

North America
Europe
Africa
South America
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• In the Triangular Trade
• Manufactured Goods (examples Rocking Chairs and
  Winter Coats) are made in Europe using the raw
  materials shipped to them from the Americas.
  They are shipped from Europe to Africa, where
  they will either be sold or shipped to the
  Americas to be sold.

North America
Europe
Africa
South America
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• In the Triangular Trade
• Slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas where
  they were forced into slavery, working to grow
  and harvest the raw materials that were shipped
  to Europe

North America
Europe
Africa
South America
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Summary Assessment Question

• Imagine that you are a native living in Central
  America when the Spanish conquistadors arrive on
  the coasts of your land. Describe the many new
  things they bring with them (food, animals,
  diseases). Explain how each of these groups of
  new things have changed your life. Do you feel
  that your life is better or worse after the
  Europeans arrived. Explain why you feel this way.

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• This is a short answer response. This means that
  your answer should be paragraph length, not one
  word answers.
• Specifically you should have
• 1 introductory sentence
• 3 sentences describing the new things brought by
  the Europeans (1 for food, 1 for animals, 1 for
  disease)
• 3 sentences describing how each of these groups
  of new things have changed your life (1 for food,
  1 for animals, 1 for disease)
• 1 sentence telling whether your life is better or
  worse
• 1 sentence, minimum, explaining why you feel this
  way
• Total of 9 complete, correct sentences, minimum