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The Great Exchange refers to the transfer of culture, plants, animals, and disease around the world. As people travelled around the world, they discovered new products. By the 1700s, Europeans were sailing to Africa, India, China, and Southeast Asia to trade.
This game is based on a book published in 1775 called "The New and Complete Guide to the East India Trade." It was written by British merchants travelling and trading in the East whose goal was to return alive and with enough goods to sell in England to make a profit.
See if you, too, can return alive to England -- winning fame and fortune -- in
Merchants of the Great Exchange.
When Christopher Columbus and the explorers who followed him landed in the Americas, they began to introduce foods they were familiar with. Wheat, beef, and sugar are just a few items they introduced through the years. These foods, together with foods discovered in America, were combined to make the cuisine we eat today.
So... get ready for school, pack your lunch, and see just how many things would have been left in your lunchbox in America before 1492, with
Whose Lunch is it Anyway?
