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What is the New World?

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Background:

In A.D. 1492, Columbus and his 3 ships set sail from Europe

heading west across the Atlantic Ocean.

He was trying to find a faster way to get to India to buy stuff to

take back to Europe.

Instead, Columbus ran into a “New World” that Europeans did

not know existed. This New World was later called the

Americas (North & South)

Columbus voyage map

Background:

The Columbian Exchange, sometimes known as the Great Exchange, is a

term used to describe the massive exchange of agricultural goods, slave

labor, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western

Hemispheres, which occurred after the year 1492. It started when

Europeans (Columbus) discovered the Americas. The Europeans decided

to trade their goods for the natural resources of the Native Americans.

The Columbian Exchange began in 1492.

As a result of Columbus's voyages to the New World, a biological pipeline between America and Europe opened up that had been apart since before humans appeared on earth. The lands had drifted apart that had once been connected. (Pangaea animation link) Some species of plants and animals flourished in both areas, and some did not. There were many new animals and plants in the Americas that Europeans had never seen, and Europeans brought plants and animals to the New World that America had never seen.

Identify what was being traded.

Patterns of Interaction

Think about your favorite foods. Chances are that at least oneoriginated in a distant land. Throughout history, the introduction ofnew foods into a region has dramatically changed lives—for better and worse. Dependence on the potato, for example, led to a famine inIreland. This prompted a massive migration of Irish people to othercountries. In the Americas, the introduction of sugar led to riches forsome and enslavement for many others.

Some aspects of the Columbian Exchange had atragic impact on many Native Americans. Diseasewas just as much a part of the Columbian Exchangeas goods and food. The diseases Europeans broughtwith them, which included smallpox and measles,led to the death of millions of Native Americans.

Describe what you see in this picture .What animals and goods were being brought to the new world?

The Aztec Empire is conquered by Hernando Cortes in 1521.Do you recall what animals and items were introduced to the Aztecs upon his arrival?

                                                                                       

"Hernando Cortés and the Spanish soldiersconfront the Indians," in Durán, La Historia antigua de la Nueva España, 1585

Library of Congress

"What must it have been like to be exposed in a rush to a totally alien people, horses, steel, and

new and hideous diseases?"

Explain what the Columbian Exchange was.

Is one of your favoritefoods from the OldWorld or the New World?

New WorldNorth America South America

Old WorldEuropeAsiaAfrica

Cocoa! Chocolate! Chocolatl!

For the Aztecs cocoa: - Was a drink. They sometimes prepared it with vanilla and/or chili! - Was a currency. Aztecs used chocolate to pay their taxes! - Was a sun screen The oily layer floating in the chocolate drink was used to protect the skin against the sun.

In the Aztec world cocoa had religious significance: - Cocoa was believed to be of divine origin: the cocoa tree was a bridge between earth and heaven. - Human sacrifices to propitiate God or sun were first sanctified by giving him chocolate. - Cocoa beans were given to priest’s assistants at children’s coming of age ceremonies. - During marriage ceremonies, the couple drank a symbolic cup of chocolate and exchanged cocoa beans. - Aztecs believed that drinking chocolate gave mortals some of Quetzalcoatl’s (God of learning and the wind) wisdom.

What do you use chocolate for? _______________________________________________________

What are the pros and cons (good and bad)

of the Columbian Exchange?

Sources:Pangaea animation www.scotese.com Scotese, C. R., 2001. Atlas of Earth History, Volume 1, Paleogeography,PALEOMAP Project, Arlington, Texas, 52 pp.

Columbus pictures and voyage mapWorld Book Online