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The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange. Standard. Standard 3: History: WORLD HISTORY-Understand important historical events from classical civilization through the present. Benchmark.

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The Columbian Exchange

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  1. The Columbian Exchange

  2. Standard • Standard 3: History: WORLD HISTORY-Understand important historical events from classical civilization through the present

  3. Benchmark • Explain the effects of global exchanges in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, including the spread of food crops and diseases, the exchange of trade goods, and migrations of peoples (forced and voluntary)

  4. Map of Columbian Exchange

  5. Plants and Animals from Europe to New World • Wheat, barley, rice, weeds (dandelions), sugar. • Cows, horses, pigs. • Results: • Deforested Americas. • Horses-Amerindian tribes Great Plains-sedentary to nomadic. • Led to African slavery.

  6. Plants and Animals from New World to Europe • Maize (corn), white and sweet potatoes, chiles, squash, manioc (type of flour), chocolate, coffee, tobacco. • Turkey, guinea pigs. • Impacts: • Foods=population boom in Europe. • Where did extra people go? • Eventually led to European colonization.

  7. Diseases-Old to New World • Smallpox, common cold, flu. • Smallpox-most devastating. • Killed millions of Native Americans. • Sig: Easier for Europeans to conquer, colonize New World.

  8. Diseases-New to Old World • Syphilis • Not nearly as deadly to Europeans as smallpox to native populations.

  9. Migration of People • Europeans immigrated to New World. • Why: Riches, religious and political freedom, start over, adventure • Few Amerindians taken to Old World. • Most Africans forced to New World as slave labor. • Portuguese, Spanish, and English were slavers. • Sig: Led to Europeans becoming dominant culture in North America. • Middle and South America, led to a mixture of cultures.

  10. Trade Goods European Native American Natives traded deer skins, beaver pelts, and food stuffs. • Europeans exchanged guns, metals (copper), tools, and cloth.

  11. Trade Goods-Triangle Trade

  12. Triangle Trade • Europe to Africa • Manufactured goods (iron products) • Europe to New World • Manufactured goods (cloth, tools, furniture, weapons) • Teas and spices • New World to Europe • Lumber, tobacco, fish, oils, rum • New World to Africa • Rum, iron products • Africa to Europe • Gold, spices, precious metals • Africa to New World • Slaves

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