Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0515 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Columbian Exchange and the Great Dying
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The idea
The Columbian Exchange moved plants, animals and diseases between the hemispheres, altering economies on four continents. Diseases traveling west killed as much as ninety-five percent of the Western Hemisphere's Indigenous peoples, in the anchor's estimate.
In practice
The encomienda: a Crown grant of Indigenous labor to conquistadors.
Where people slip
The black legend, an English myth, held Spain uniquely cruel.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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