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APUSH September 15, 2014

APUSH September 15, 2014. Discuss Friday Unit 1 Notes: The Columbian Exchange Video: The Columbian Exchange. Unit : 1491 - 1607. European Exploration of the Americas and The Columbian Exchange. European Exploration of the Americas.

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APUSH September 15, 2014

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  1. APUSHSeptember 15, 2014 • Discuss Friday • Unit 1 Notes: The Columbian Exchange • Video: The Columbian Exchange

  2. Unit : 1491 - 1607 European Exploration of the Americas andThe Columbian Exchange

  3. European Exploration of the Americas • Why were the European monarchs and entrepreneurs interested in exploring the Americas? • What drove European exploration and conquest? • 3 G’s: • Gold • Glory • God • Natural Resources and the search for a sea route to the East: India and China. • Both = future profits, trade, and economic growth. • Christopher Columbus arrived in Bahamas in 1492 and shortly after discovered islands of Hispaniola and Cuba.

  4. The Columbian Exchange Columbian Exchange: The exchange of plants, animals, culture, customs, ideologies, gold, humans, diseases, technology, etc. between the Americas, Europe, and Africa. • Impact of exchange? • In Europe and Asia: massive population growth due to new food • In Africa: Spanish and Portuguese used Africans from West Africa to be used as slaves in the Americas • In the Americas: spread of diseases (smallpox, typhus, cholera, measles), social classes (Mestizos), and Encomiendasystem. • 3 Reasons: • Trade/Invasions more common in Europe • Dense cities in Europe • Large populations of domesticated animals lived with/near Europeans. • Within one decade, nearly 50% of Native population wiped out. • Many lost their tribal identity and converted to Christianity. • Europeans believed disease was a punishment to Natives who defied Christianity. • Natives blames disease on witchcraft practiced by colonists.

  5. Two biological ecosystems interchanged to create a new world ecology.

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