The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course #23
The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course #23
The Columbian Exchange changed the face of the world as diseases, animals, plants, and people moved across continents and dramatically remade the societies they reached.
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 01:05 What effects did the Columbian Exchange have on the global biological landscape?
- 02:21 What were the demographic effects of the Columbian Exchange in the Americas?
- 03:13 In what context were Europeans able to take over Aztec and Incan lands?
- 07:26 How did animals from Afro-Eurasia impact the Americas?
- 09:52 Out of the four categories discussed—disease, animals, plants, and people—which had the biggest effect on Afro-Eurasia, according to John Green? What were some of those cultural and demographic effects?
- 10:22 Initially, the Columbian Exchange led to the decimation of the population of the Americas, mostly as a result of disease. How did this pattern of demographic decline change over time?
- 11:23 By the end of Era 5, what were the principal global effects of the Columbian Exchange?