1. Columbian Exchange
Rebecca Maxcey
January 6, 2015
3rd Period (WHAP)

2. Columbian Exchange Artistic and Life Exchanges Plants and Animals
Diseases
Technology
European and Native American
Makeup of Atlantic

3. How It Began Christopher Columbus discovery
Trade goods for natural resources
Old World
New World
-food: corn, potatoes, bean, coca beans
-precious metals: gold, silver
-tobacco
-food: wheat, sugar, rice, coffee beans
-livestock: horses, cows, pigs
-diseases: smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus

4. Animals Pigs -produced fastest -meat for explorers Horses -travel
-trips across Atlantic were hard because of size
-speed in war
-terrified natives

5. Animals Cattle -Columbus 1943 -killed for hides and meat
-hides sold in Europe
Camels
-not popular in new world
-food
~escaped slaves
-extinct by 1615

6. Plants Sugarcane -flourished in New World -diet of every culture
-plantations developed
~Cuba
~Puerto Rico
~Jamaica
Maize
-most important New World crops
-grows quickly
-grows better than wheat

7. Plants Potatoes -amazing New World crop -European diet
-cold stand cold and could grow in thin soil
-food for lower class
-dietary staples

8. Diseases Old World Diseases Smallpox Measles Malaria Yellow Fever
Influenza
Chicken Pox

9. Diseases
New World Diseases
Syphilis
Polio
Hepatitis
Encephalitis

10. Technology Written Alphabet -no formal written language
-use to write treaty
-educate natives
-” This written syllabary is a key step in the technological movement and the intellectual growth of the Native Americans by way of the Columbus Exchange.”(
Farming
-plow ignite New World
-cultivated land
-helped with food for natives and Europeans
-main factor
-pulled by horses/large animals

11. Technology Architecture -built homes -ranches -farms -ports -ships
Weapons
-knives and guns
~hunting and fishing
-bow and arrow
-hunting
-fishing
-protection
Architecture
-built homes
-ranches
-farms
-ports
-ships

12. Works Cited
Google for my picsss