Age of Exploration

The Columbian Exchange

What was the Columbian Exchange??? Columbian Exchange = the exchange of goods from Americas to Europe & from Europe to America – new plants, animals, crops, foods, disease, technology, and ideas This kind of exchange is called cultural diffusion Influx of food results in population growth, especially in Europe Influx of disease results in decline in population in the Americas

What was exchanged??? from Americas: corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, beans, pineapples, tobacco, chocolate, quinine from Europe: wheat, melons, grapes, bananas, coconut, coffee, sugar cane, honeybees, olives, onions, horses, cattle, firearms, smallpox, whooping cough, malaria, measles

Middle Passage **lower mortality rate** The Triangle Trade

What was the Triangle Trade??? Triangular Trade: network of trade between the Americas, Europe and coastal Africa raw materials (sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc.) from Americas to Europe; manufactured goods (guns, rum, etc.) from Europe to Africa; slaves, ivory, gold from Africa to Americas

The Gun-Slave cycle New guns are used to get more slaves Guns are given in exchange for slaves