Watch: Two videos on The Columbian Exchange

  Columbian Exchange (video link)

Why should you watch this?

After Columbus "discovered" the Americas, European conquerors, traders, and settlers brought all manner of changes to the formerly isolated continents. Watch the video and examine why disease and invasive plant and animal species remade the New World, usually in negative ways. While native people, plants, and animals were being displaced in the Americas, the rest of the world was benefiting from American imports, especially foods like maize, tomatoes, potatoes, pineapple, blueberries, sweet potatoes, and manioc.

 

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  Columbian Exchange (video link)

Why should you watch this?

This video presents a more detailed approach to the Columbian Exchange.