You live in a coastal town in Spain in the 1500s. This week, several ships have returned from the Americas, bringing silver for the royal court. But that’s not all. The crew has also brought back some strange foods. One sailor offers you a round, red fruit. Natives in the Americas call it a “tomatl” he tells you. He dares you to taste it, but you are afraid it might be poison.

Will you taste the tomato? Why or Why not?

Bell Ringer 2/25/15

Objective

• I can evaluate the cause and effect of the new economic system on Europe and the New World.

• 7.63 Explain the origins of modern capitalism, the influence of mercantilism, and the cottage industry; the elements and importance of a market economy in 17th century Europe; the changing international trading and marketing patterns; including their locations on a world map; and the influence of explorers and mapmakers.

Columbian Exchange• What do you think this term means?• What is being exchanged?• Where is the exchange taking place?

Columbian Exchange • The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas

between the New World and the Old World• Europeans introduced many new plants to the

Americas: bananas, sugarcane, oranges, onions, and lettuce. They also brought new animals such as cows, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, and chickens

• In the Americas the people found many plants and animals and took back to Europe, as well as to Africa and Asia such as potatoes, beans, squash, and chocolate.

Positives & Negatives• Europeans also brought technologies such as guns

and steel to the New World. The introduction of sheep and sugarcane created new industries. Colonist began to grow sugarcane on plantations- large farms.

• Plantations and mines in the Americas made money for Portugal and Spain. Many of the Indians that were forced to work on the land died from harsh treatment or European diseases. So Europeans started using enslaved Africans as workers.

DailyworkA) Geography Skills: page 598.

Answer questions 1 & 2.

B) Columbian Exchange “Menu”

k Try to plan a menu using just the items from the Europe (old world) or Americas (new world)k It should be something you would actually eat!k Think of an appetizer, main course, and dessert

B) Columbian Exchange “Menu”

aAppetizer, main course, dessertNew World: Old World:Maize peanuts wheat lettuce/cabbagePotato chocolate oats onionSquash vanilla barley garlicManioc strawberry banana orangeTomato blueberry lemon peachBell pepper pineapple sugarcane coffeeChili pepper tobacco tea horses/donkeyAvocado fowls (birds) cattle pigsPumpkin llamas goats sheepDogs guinea pigs barnyard fowl apples

C) Effects of Columbian Exchange

Read Linking to Today “Effects of the Columbian Exchange” on page 599. **Answer the Analysis Skills question**

Closeout:In your opinion, what was the single mostimportant item brought over from the Old World tothe New World?

Old World New World