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Demographic Changes 1450-1750

Demographic Changes 1450-1750. Tom Benati Scott Chung Dylan Bromley. Disease. Europe & Asia began to recover from Bubonic plague Many diseases were exchanged between the “Old World” and “New World” through the Columbian Exchange

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Demographic Changes 1450-1750

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  1. Demographic Changes 1450-1750 Tom Benati Scott Chung Dylan Bromley

  2. Disease • Europe & Asia began to recover from Bubonic plague • Many diseases were exchanged between the “Old World” and “New World” through the Columbian Exchange • The Americas received many diseases from Europe and Africa such as the flu, diphtheria, typhus, whooping cough, measles, small pox, malaria • Europe only received syphilis from the Americas

  3. Disease • During the African Slave trade many diseases rampaged especially on the Middle passage • These diseases were inflammations, fever, and small pox along with newly discovered diseases Drapetomania and Dysaethesia Aethiopica

  4. Population Trend • Population beginning to increase in Europe and Asia due to recovery from bubonic plague • People, mainly from Spain and Portugal, are shifting from Europe to the Americas to set up colonies • In Russia when Peter the Great tried to “westernize” Russia and catch them up to Europe he established new cities, such as the new capital St. Petersburg • There were no major population movements in China, Japan, and the rest of Southeast Asia

  5. Population Trend • Number of native peoples in the Americas decrease because of war and many deaths from disease • People from Africa begin to move to the Americas because of the shortage of native people to put to work in the Americas that the Africans were enslaved

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