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The Columbian Exchange
Unit 5, December 7
th
and 8
thSlide2
Before 1492
Two very different ecosystems
Two difference disease pools
Two sets of culturally diverse people
Two sets of flora and faunaSlide3
“...all the trees were as different from ours as day from night, and so the fruits, the herbage, the rocks, and all things.”
--
Christopher ColumbusSlide4
The Columbian Exchange
Exploration led to an enormous exchange of
people, plants, animals, technology, and ideas
that would change the lives of people in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Because this global interaction began with Columbus, it is called the
Columbian Exchangemany aspects of the exchange were intentional, but other things, like diseases happened unintentionally Slide5
Effects of the Columbian Exchange
Exchange of
pathogens
– smallpox, syphilis, measlesLivestock – horses, cattle, chickens, goats, sheep
They roamed free and their numbers increased rapidly, leading to the extinction of certain plants and other animalsNew crops – maize, rice, sugar, tobacco, cacao, bananasan increase in food supply helped populations riseSlavery emerged as many of the crops were labor intensiveSlide6
Squash
Avocado
Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Turkey
Pumpkin
Tobacco
Quinine
Cocoa
Pineapple
Cassava
POTATO
Peanut
TOMATO
Vanilla
MAIZE
Syphilis
Olive Oil
COFFEE BEAN
Banana Rice Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley Grape Peach SUGAR CANE Oats Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE Cattle Sheep Pigs Smallpox Flu Typhus Measles Malaria Diptheria Whooping Cough
Trinkets Liquor GUNS
The Columbian ExchangeSlide7
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade
Existed in
Africa
before the coming of the EuropeansPortuguese replaced European slaves with Africans
They worked on Sugar cane and sugar plantationsFirst boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518275,000 enslaved Africans exported to other countriesBetween 16th and 19th centuries, about
10 million
Africans were shipped to the AmericasSlide8