Author Question: Students should analyze the meaning of the Columbian Exchange. What will be an ideal response? (Read 76 times)

jho37 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Stalin's death brought

a. the aborting of a campaign against Jews.
b. an outpouring of grief from many of the people.
c. a feeling of relief among his advisers.
d. a thaw that emptied Stalin's forced-labor camps.
e. all of the above

Question 2

Students should analyze the meaning of the Columbian Exchange.

What will be an ideal response?

sarah_brady415 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 12, 2019

Answer 1

e

Answer 2

ANSWER: Such a discussion or written exercise would begin with the recognition that a great number of exchanges took place across the Atlantic Ocean. They might look at the exchange of plants like wheat from Europe and maize (or corn) from America. They might consider the exchange of diseases like measles and syphilis. But more significantly, students should describe the extent to which the Exchange was positive or negative. Consideration of the effects upon European and African societies which experienced population explosions because of increased nutrition and crop yields of the new plants would rebound to the Americas where the descendants sought room to grow and a place for themselves in the new world.