1. The Spanish Conquest: Economic & cultural exchange
Mr. Barchetto
Notes #5

2. Columbian Exchange
Watch Crash Course #23—The Columbian Exchange and answer questions on wks.
Two Crucial and interrelated elements of the Columbian Exchange were the transatlantic trade in sugar and slaves.

3. The Transatlantic Trade Route (Sugar)

4. History of Slavery
Using CN#6 & Slave Trade handout What can you tell me about the history of slavery?

5. European Outposts in Africa
What European country did we discuss explored West Africa for a sea route to India?
Portugal
What was the purpose of the outposts that the Portuguese set up?
Built small forts along the coast
Traded gold, collected food/water, & repaired ships
Took over the thriving trade network from the Arabs
The Dutch, the English & the French established forts as well

6. 1500’s Changes in Africa… 1500s: Europeans began to:
View slaves as the most important item to trade
Relied on African rulers and traders to seize captives
Traded for textiles, metalwork, rum, tobacco, weapons, and gun powder
Read: African Agency and Resistance
The Atlantic Slave Trade was born! (Triangular Trade)

7. Motives for African Slaves
Why were Africans needed in the new world?
Europeans needed a larger work force to work plantations, in the mines and on the ranches.
What was happening to the Native Americans? Why?
Native Americans were dying at an unbelievable rate.
Natives had no natural immunities to European diseases.
Why were Africans viewed as the perfect source of labor?
Africans were use to the warm climate and difficult work.
Africans were exposed to and developed immunities to European disease.
Africans new little about the new land and were less likely to flee captivity.

8. The Transatlantic Trade Route (Slaves)
Read excerpt: The African Side of the Trade

9. Horrors of the Middle Passage
Read excerpt The Middle Passage
What was the Middle Passage?
This was the long 3 month trip slaves endured across the Atlantic from Africa to the New World
Read excerpt The Trade’s Influence on Ethnic & Racial Identity