Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Columbian Exchange #2

• Open a new Internet Explorer window and log onto your blogsite.
• Start a new post and entitle it: Oct. 10, 2007 The Columbian Exchange.
• Copy and paste the questions below.
• Work diligently, this assignment is due today.
• Use the websites posted on October 9th to research the following questions:

What three types of organisms were “exchanged” between the old and the new worlds?
Before the Columbian Exchange there were no (fill in the blank with a well-known product associated with the listed geographic place):
_________________ in Florida
_________________ in Ireland
_________________ on the Great American Plains
_________________ in Ecuador
_________________ in Texas
_________________ in Switzerland
What were the three main motives or reasons Europeans started to explore the world?
List three old world crops that came to the new world.
List three new world crops that came to the old world.
List three old world animals that came to the new world.
List three new world animals that came to the old world.
List three old world diseases that came to the new world.
List three new world diseases that came to the old world.