The Columbian Exchange

• The global transfer of foods, plants & animals during the colonization of the Americas

• The exchange of crops across Atlantic caused pops. to grow– Corn & potatoes (inexpensive & nutritious) (Amers)

• White Potato (Ireland)• Sweet Potato (China)

– Wheat (Euros) – Tomato (Amers)

• Also, animals…– Horses, cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, house

cats (Euro)– Turkey, gray squirrel, muskrat (Amers)

• Why would the ‘Columbian Exchange’ be considered the tsunami of

unintentional

“bio-terrorism”??

• Disease from Euros. – Measles, typhus, plague, & smallpox

The “Columbian The “Columbian Exchange”Exchange”

The “Columbian The “Columbian Exchange”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