PART 1: What is meant by the “Columbian Exchange?” Analyze what you ate for dinner yesterday: Identify the origins of the food that you ate. Would your meal have been possible without the “Columbian Exchange?” (150 words)
PART 2: Read Columbus’s letter to Lord Treasurer Sanchez (in this unit’s Readings). Compose a short essay (350-400 words) in which you compare his portrayal of Native Americans with Aztec, Congolese, and Chinese portrayals of Europeans in the primary sources in Ch.12 “Global Themes and Sources: Cultural Contexts in the Age of Exploration.” Sources of all information and quotations must be cited in footnotes or endnotes.