Columbian Exchange Research Paper

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Myles Scott
Mr. Tryon
Modern World History
November 9, 2015 Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was was a period of cultural and biological exchange between the New and Old Worlds. It was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases and teachnology transformed European and Native American ways of life. The animal turkey, was domesticated in the New World which was brought back to the Old World after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. Explorers brought items from the Old world with them to the New world such as coffee. Coffee comes from the coffee bean which was founded in the Old World. The domestication of turkey in the Old world, and the domestication of the coffee bean in the New World impacts the environment and influences
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By 1541, the consumption of turkeys was so high that Thomas Cranmer made a law to restrict the consumption of turkeys in order to keep them from being endangered. Italy made similar laws, however its people did not agree with being told what they could not eat, so they continued to cook the bird illegally in private. The people found alternative ways to eat a turkey such as making huge pies out of the turkey meat. A similarly enormous pie was made in England that used 100 turkeys in the process. By 1560 all of Europe had started domesticating and eating the turkey. The novelty of the birds made them symbols for rich and famous people in Europe. European nobles would turn their estates into an extravagant zoo. Exotic animals were traded for these zoos. The turkey was one of the animals which were traded to be in a zoo due to its flamboyant strut, red wattle, and its obsession with the words “gobble gobbles” (Gardner). Turkeys became greatly popular throughout Europe, and were a status of the richest …show more content…
The legend of the coffee bean in Ethiopia says that a goat herder named Kaldi first discovered the bean’s potential after noticing that his goats became so energetic after eating them and did not sleep. He sent his discoveries to the abbot of the local monastery. He made a beverage using these beans and noticed that he was awake for several hours. The monk shared this information with other monks from other monasteries. This information spread across the globe. After much controversy, coffee houses were quickly becoming the centers of social activity and communication in the major cities of England, Austria, France, Germany, and Holland. In the mid 1600’s, coffee was brought to New Amsterdam, a location called New York by the British. Even though coffee houses were becoming more and more popular, tee was still the favored drink in the New World until 1773. Then the colonists revolted against the high tax on tea made by the king. The revolt was The Boston Party which changed the American drinking preference to coffee forever (“History of