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Cultural Diffusion and the Columbian Exchange

Cultural Diffusion and the Columbian Exchange. Patterns of Trade From medieval - 1750 C.E. What are the benefits of studying the past regarding this subject today?. 900 CE – 1750 CE. MODERN. BCE. 1-300CE. 300CE. Patterns of Trade Cultural Diffusion. and how they led to.

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Cultural Diffusion and the Columbian Exchange

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  1. Cultural Diffusionand the Columbian Exchange Patterns of Trade From medieval - 1750 C.E. What are the benefits of studying the past regarding this subject today?

  2. 900 CE – 1750 CE MODERN BCE 1-300CE 300CE Patterns of Trade Cultural Diffusion and how they led to We will be looking at the exchange of ideas & goods from 300 CE to 1750 CE. Welcome to our world

  3. North and South America Afroeurasia Many connections were established among regions that formed interregional patterns of unity.

  4. Trade From 300-1500 CE, trade routes extended farther and were used by more travelers.

  5. Books & paper Mapmaking Stern-rudder Ideas North Arabian Camel Saddle Astrolabe Stirrup Lateen sail Slide #5 Student notes: Transport and communication technology improved.

  6. Ideas Slide #6 Student notes: How did transfers of technology and products change people’s lives in Afroeurasia? • The pace of innovation increased • Knowledge accumulated more quickly • Manufacturing and farming productivity increased • People’s diets and health improved • Sea travel and transport increased

  7. Exchanges that began in Afroeurasia continued to bring about changeCont. Slide #6 Student notes write a couple: • Scholars translated books, taught others, and worked to gain knowledge • Trade introduced people to new products, increasing demand for luxuries • Money moved across countryside and continents in exchange for goods • Religious ideas were hotly debated, and ordinary people worshipped daily • Ruling groups debated laws, and military struggles continued

  8. Columbus 1492 Vasco Da Gama 1498 Magellan 1519 Slide #8 Student notes: After 1415, European mariners made voyages across the seas toward east and west. By 1519, Magellan had circumnavigated the globe. Others set out in search of wealth, adventure and fame.

  9. If you had to put all of these changes into one sentence, what would it be? You might say, by 1500 CE, the world was connected, right? But wait! You still haven’t said much about the Americas!

  10. Well…the Americas and Afroeurasia were not yet permanently linked together. …not until 1492… When Columbus sailed the ocean blue…

  11. Slide #11 Student notes: So, by 1492, European mariners set out on trans-oceanic voyages to the Americas. Those voyages linked the Americas with Afroeurasia for the first time since the migrations of people over 13,000 years earlier! It had to happen sooner or later!

  12. Mapmaking Lateen Sail Compass Stern-rudder Cultural exchange in Afroeurasia before 1500 CE resulted in the technologies that made transoceanic voyages possible. Is that why people from Afroeurasia discovered the Americas, and not the opposite?

  13. The Columbian Exchange Slide #13 Student notes: Plants, animals and micro-organisms of Afroeurasia were exchanged with those of the Americas across the oceans.

  14. New crops like potatoes and beans spread and improved nutrition worldwide. Luxury products like coffee, chocolate, tea, tobacco and spices meant new cultural habits for those with money to spend. Population & Environment Columbian Exchange

  15. Population & Environment Plains woman hunting buffalo, 1800s Slide #15 Student notes: Environmental changes resulted from introducing new species Global cash crops were grown on large plantations with slave labor Caribbean sugar plantation, 1600s Livestock introduced to the Americas changed indigenous groups’ ways of life

  16. Population & Environment Islam and Christianity spread with empires, trade, and migration • Catholic missionaries followed the spread of the Spanish empire • Jesuits worked in Asia • Protestants colonized North America • Traders and Sufi orders spread Islam in Africa and Asia • The Ottoman Empire pressed into eastern Europe.

  17. 1507 1484 Ideas & Inventions 1520 1780 Mapmakers finally got my portrait right! What a handsome guy!

  18. GOODS, IDEAS AND PEOPLE ARE NOW MOVING AROUND THE WORLD CONTINUING CROSS CULTURALIZATION AND….. Slide #18 Student notes: Define: CULTURAL DIFFUSION Cultural diffusion is the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.

  19. Trade & Manufacturing Slide # 19 Student notes: Trade encircled the globe: The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture and human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

  20. Let us draw conclusions: Explain 7 benefits of global trade on civilization, list examples for each benefit. Formulate your ideas then write & explain 7 examples that you learned from this presentation. (Use the graphic organizer)

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