2.12 The Columbian Exchange and Global Trade.pptx.pdf
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Class Agenda for February 12, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the Columbian Exchange and Global Trade affected the world’s nutrition 3. Essential Question: How did the exchange of different foods influence the world? 4. Meme/Thought of the Day 5. Academic...
Class Agenda for February 12, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the Columbian Exchange and Global Trade affected the world’s nutrition 3. Essential Question: How did the exchange of different foods influence the world? 4. Meme/Thought of the Day 5. Academic Vocabulary and definitions 6. Homework: Please read pp. 137-141, Columbian Exchange and Global Trade in the History Textbook and assessment (1-8) The New Wealth from the Americas, new businesses, and Trade Practices - Dramatic growth of trade - New foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas - New fruits and vegetables; tomatoes, squash, pineapples, tobacco, cacao beans (for chocolate) and turkeys, avocados, peppers, peanuts Corn and Potatoes (cheap and easy to grow) - Potatoes became a staple of many diets in the world - It was nutritious and helped people live longer; it was CHEAP - White potato in Ireland and the sweet potato in China helped increase world population Horses, cattle, sheep and pigs came to the Americas - Bananas, black-eyed peas, yams, wheat, rice, barley, and oats - Slavery flourished - Up to 90% of native population of the Americas were wiped out by disease - Rise of Capitalism: An economic system based on private ownership and investment of resources, money for profit. Joint-stock company was a company with investors buying shares of stock in a company. It involved a number of people combining their wealth for a common purpose: Profit Mercantilism; (from the 16th-18th centuries) A country’s power came from its wealth (GDP, gross domestic product) over its rivals and a favorable balance of trade - The more that you export and the less you import is better for a country’s wealth. Governments were no longer the only owners of wealth - The growth of the merchant’s class (becomes the middle class)