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The Columbian Exchange

by Savannah Stanley

5th period Mrs.Humphress

What is the Columbian Exchange?

My "Perfect" Family (;

The Columbian Exchange was an advance in resources for both Europe and the Americas around 1492. It was an exchange between the Europeans and Native Indians but eventually went global. When the Europeans first arrived in America, The Indians had never seen horses, oranges, pears, bananas and worst of all coffee! Imagine living without some of your every day essentials. But the Native Americans also had many things the Europeans did not have, including corn, beans, pineapples and chocolate! The Europeans and Indians traded not only these fine goods but also many sicknesses and diseases including smallpox, measles, and malaria which killed many of the Indians civilization. While the Columbian exchange brought us many yummy and helpful things, it also killed many defenseless people.

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New World Items

Old World Items

My Family and The Columbian Exchange

As you can tell from the pictures my family consumes more Old World items, which include more greens, and healthy stuff (though that's not my personal choice) But we do enjoy some items from the New World.. Most importantly chocolate (; If we didn't have our Old World foods our diets would be drastically effected. We wouldn't have as many fruit smoothies, kale potato chips, and we wouldn't be able to enjoy my moms lemon/chicken dish. Without our Old World products we wouldn't eat as healthy, and wouldn't have as much vitamin C in our system like we do now. I know my dad would be at a loss without his precious coffee. If we didn't have our Old world products our normal system would really change. So I am very thankful for both Old and New world items.

Avocados Beans (kidney, navy, Lima) Bell peppers

Black-eyed Susans

Cacao (for chocolate) Chili peppers Corn Cotton

Marigolds Papayas Peanuts Petunias

Pineapples Poinsettias Potatoes Pumpkins

Quinine Rubber Squashes Sunflowers

Sweet potatoes Tobacco Tomatoes Turkeys

Vanilla beans Zinnias

Bananas Barley Cabbages Carnations

Chickens Coffee Cows Crabgrass

Daffodils Daisies Dandelions Horses

Lemons Lettuce Lilacs Olives

Oranges Peaches Pears Pigs

Rice Sheep Sugarcane Tulips

Turnips Wheat

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