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Columbian Exchange VBQ
Watch the video below, listen actively, and answer the questions that follow. Probably the best way to do this is to read first question, start watching, pause once you encounter the information you need to respond to the question, then read next question before pressing play again.
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Crash Course: Columbian Exchange VBQ
If you want a text transcript of the video to read along, click here:
https://nerdfighteria.info/v/HQPA5oNpfM4/
Hey, so, before you get started learning about the Columbian Exchange, just take a look at this actually pretty decent map, showing a visual representation of the exchange, and examine its contents. This should make watching the video and completing the assignment easier.
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Very cool! Wait, WHAT?! I didn't know that came from there!
Oh, great, another map... *sarcasm*
Oh, also, when they say "Old World", they mean, basically, the Eastern Hemisphere, or at least Afro-Eurasia, and when they say "New World", they mean the Western Hemispheres, or the Americas.
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Oh, I get it, because it was new to Europeans. Wow Mister, that's pretty "Eurocentric", isn't it?
OK OK OK ONE LAST THING! For our lesson tomorrow, you will have to discuss one specific idea or element of this video in your group discussions, so as you watch, make sure you keep your eyes and ears attentive for something you want to discuss. At the end of this VBQ, you will be asked to identify and explain the idea or element you have chosen, and will be expected to share it with your group tomorrow.
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OK WOW CAN WE WATCH THE VIDEO NOW?!?!
[0:30-1:30] Before the Columbian Exchange, Native Americans had never before seen a
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Horse
Tomato
Catfish
Baked Potato
[1:00-2:00] 50-90% of Native Americans DIED following the arrival of Europeans due primarily to European
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Guns
Brutality
Languages
Diseases
[2:00-3:00] How, specifically, were the Spanish conquests of the Inca and the Aztecs very similar, in terms of what happened leading up to the conquest, and in the way things played out from there?
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[3:00-4:30] Which of the following diseases was the only major disease transmitted FROM the New World TO the Old World?
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Smallpox
Measles
Syphilis
Mumps
[3:00-4:30] John, citing Alfred Crosby, says that sailors are largely to blame for spreading Syphilis. Why would that be? (Keep it clean, folks.)
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[4:30-5:30] Tobacco originated from the
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Old World
New World
[5:30-7:30] All of the following are ways in which the introduction of new animals to the Americas brought great change except...
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Old world animals like pigs provided a new and abundant food source
Beasts of burden from Eurasia like oxen made it possible to bring more land under cultivation
Horses allowed many Native Americans to abandon agriculture in favor of a nomadic lifestyle
Europeans discovered the llama, which they brought back to Europe to remake the wool industry
[7:30-9:00] In addition to the wonderful gift of PIZZA and Indian curry dishes (personally, I prefer the latter), the primary impact that New World plants had on the Old World was
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The spread of the Bubonic Plague to Sub-Saharan Africa
Massive population growth due to food surpluses
Famine caused by Old World crops dying due to ecosystem competition from New World crops
Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
[8:30-9:30] What made corn and potatoes so ESPECIALLY beneficial to the Old World?
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[9:00-10:00] TRUE OR FALSE: There is a temple in China dedicated to the Sweet Potato.
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TRUE
FALSE
[9:30-10:30] Why did the Columbian Exchange lead to Europeans and Africans coming to the Americas in large numbers? Be sure to give a DIFFERENT explanation for Europeans and for Africans.
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[10:30-12:00] Crosby clearly thinks the Columbian Exchange has made the world worse off rather than better off. Do you agree or disagree, and why? Give your opinion below.
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OK LAST PART! Pick one topic, idea, or concept discussed in today's video that you will be ready to discuss with your group tomorrow in class.
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