1. Political, Economical, and Societal changes
The Age of Exploration
Political, Economical, and Societal changes

2. Transfer of Ideas and “Stuff”
Do you like
PIZZA
SPAGHETTI
CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM
WHITE BREAD
OATMEAL or PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES?
All of these things require ingredients that are native to countries all over the World.

3. Columbian Exchange
The transfer of goods and ideas from one continent to the other
Explorers opened the door to new nutrition and new ways of life

4. Transferred Foods Old World (Europe) Rice Wheat Barley Sugarcane
Bananas
Melons
Olives
Daisies
Kentucky Bluegrass
Dandelions
Oats
The Americas

5. Transfer Continues
New World Goods Corn Potatoes Beans Tobacco Peanuts Squash Cacao Chicle (gum) Pineapple Avocadoes Tomatoes Peppers
To Old World: Europe

6. New Livestock and Pets
New World Livestock and Pets hopped on ships and sailed to Old Europe
Llamas
Guinea Pigs
Fowl
TURKEY
And of course:

7. Horses Cattle Pigs Sheep Chickens Donkeys and Goats!
Livestock and Pets brought over to the New World by explorers and other settlers

8. Benefits of New Foods:
Healthier and more diverse diets in both New and Old Worlds
Rise in a permanent farm class rises in both North and South America
Some crops grew better in their new lands

9. The Economic Side of the Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism emerges as the preferred trade system of the day
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
Colonization Boom: colonize new lands to get raw materials for free (or at least cheaply)

10. The DARK side of the Columbian Exchange
Food, animals, and unwanted poor people were not the only thing transferred from nation to nation…..

11. Bad things Come on Ships
Smallpox and Typhus kills thousands of Native Americans
Native Americans spread syphilis to European Traders, settlers, explorers

12. The Triangle Trade Route

13. How it works… America Raw Materials: Europe Manufactured Goods:
lumber, molasses, coal, indigo
Europe Manufactured Goods:
boats, rum, cloth, gun powder
Africa Slaves to America
sends to
sends to
sends

14. Triangle Trade Route cont…
While the triangle trade was not Completely bad or centered around slavery, it did facilitate the transfer of Africans to the Americas for the purpose of involuntary servitude

15. Middle Passage
Africans were overloaded onto Slave Ships and sent from Africa to the Caribbean and Brazil

16. Why Africans? Why not Native Americans?
Geography:
Africa is within close proximity to Europe and its trade routes
Native Americans knew too much about Americas and were quick to get away

17. Circumstance:
Native Americans died from illnesses brought by Europeans at an alarming rate
Africans had been exposed to European diseases and were immune to number one killer- Malaria

18. African slaves came across the Atlantic Ocean to a trading/ holding post in the Caribbean
Slaves were either purchased or sent to the North American market

19. Holding Place for Slaves awaiting transport to North America…