Columbian Exchange Food Chart. While i would submit that changes in the climate had already lead to food scarcity and increased conflict, i admit that would not have been nearly as devastating as the various pathogens brought by the europeans. The columbian exchange moved commodities, people, and diseases across the atlantic.
It resulted in the increase in the food supply. Crosby in a book of the same name, was the dramatic exchange of food plants and animals between the eastern and western hemispheres in the years after the european discovery of the new world in 1492. Have students used the internet to find out more information on the columbian exchange.
9 in eurasia) easy travel (east/west axis) for ease of distribution of ideas, people and resources
Because of the columbian exchange, the potatoes and corn grown in the americas offered better food supplies to the european continent. Jonathan dresner, historian at pittsburg state university. The following activity is a fun way to help your students better understand the columbian exchange. Click on the pictures below to learn more about the influences of maize, potatoes, rice, and.
