7th Grade Columbian Exchange Symposium

Topics discussed in article include: disease, crops, animals, culinary cuisine

Geologists believe that between 280 million and 225 million years ago, the earth's previously separate land areas became welded into a landmass called Pangaea. About 120 million years ago, they believe, this landmass began to separate. As this happened, the Atlantic Ocean formed, dividing the Americas from Africa and Eurasia.

Article from Journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural Social Sciences

Great article about the history of deforestation following the Puritan settlement in New England.

Excellent site by PBS about the slave trade. Includes maps, statistics, and primary documents.

it tells the history about smallpox.

Hi Elizabeth--Try to avoid using About.com as a source. Instead, look for educational websites related to schools, museums, libraries, and research organizations. If you must, look at Wikipedia to see what sources are cited at the bottom of the page. That's a good place to start.

About a third of the way down is information about the colonial period

It's got information about the Columbian Exchange time period

History of coffee

And yet another

Another history of corn

a history of corn

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