![]() When the Old World and New World collided for the first time after Christopher Columbus' voyage, we had people interacting with each other from all over the world. The trade of ideas, foods, religions, populations and diseases that happened at that point was called the Columbian Exchange. Today we asked ourselves whether or not the benefits of the Columbian Exchange outweighed the costs. We did this by assigning multiple perspectives to students (European, African and Native American) and asking them to think about this event from that group's perspective. They then had to decide, on a scale of 1-10, whether the Exchange was more beneficial or more harmful. After, they had to defend their rating against members of other groups to agree on a total rating for the Columbian Exchange in cooperation with members from other people groups.
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AuthorMrs. Bauer is a graduate of Western Kentucky University with six years of teaching experience. She has taught 6th, 7th and 8th grades, including many different subjects such as reading, writing, ancient history and U.S. history. Archives
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