The Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange

• Two Worlds Meet

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The Columbian Exchange

• Voyages launched large-scale contact between
  Europe, Africa and The Americas.
• Interaction with Native Americans led to sweeping
  cultural changes.
• Contact between the two groups led to the
  widespread exchange of plants, animals, peoples
  and diseasethe Columbian Exchange.

The introduction of beasts of burden to the
Americas was a significant development from the
Columbian Exchange. The introduction of the horse
provided people in the Americas with a new source
of labor and transportation.
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New plants to the Old World

• Potato
• Corn
• Tomato
• Sweet Potato
• Cacao (Cocoa)
• Pineapples
• Pumpkins
• Tobacco

The Europeans loved the Tobacco Notice Italy
did NOT have tomatoes until the Columbian
Exchange.
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Old World Diseases

• Smallpox
• Measles
• Diphteria
• Chicken Pox
• Bubonic Plague
• Influenza
• Cholera
• Malaria

Small pox-trunk of victim
Infecting many Native Americans
Bubonic Plague Victim
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What the New World brought to Europe

• Syphilis
• Hepatitis
• Polio
• Tuberculosis

Polio-deformed legs
Lung of victim Tuberculosis
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Mercantilism
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Controlling Sources

• Nation that controlled own sources would not need
  to import from competing nations
• Why important
• Country did not need to spend own money to obtain
  raw materials
• Foreign countries considered rivals, might become
  active enemy, cut off supply of raw materials
• European nations worked to become more
  self-sufficient
• Nations began to establish colonies

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Cultural Diffusion

• The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies
  from one people to another.
• Cultural diffusion occurs through migration,
  trade and welfare.

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• Immediate Causes

Long Term Causes
Columbian Exchange
Immediate Effects
Long Term Effects
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Find the Main Idea What were two lasting effects
of the Columbian Exchange?
Answer(s) possible answerschanges in cuisine,
changes in crops grown around the world, epidemics
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• Immediate Causes
• Europeans arrive in the Americas
• Europeans bring new plants, animals and diseases
  to the Americas

• Long Term Causes
• God
• Gold
• Glory

Columbian Exchange

• Immediate Effects
• Spanish conquer Aztecs and Incas
• Native Americans die of European diseases
• Enslaved Africans are brought to the Americas
• American foods are introduced to other parts of
  the world

• Long Term Effects
• Spread of products all around the world
• Population growth in Europe, Asia, and Africa
• Cultural diffusion
• Migration from Europe to the Americas
• Growth of Capitalism

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According to the diagram, the diet of western
Europeans changed because of(a )new
technologies in food packaging (b) the
development of new breeds of livestock (c) the
use of the first food preservatives(d) the
introduction of new foods from the Americas
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Immigration
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Colonies
Building colonial empires essential to
mercantilist system
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Impact on Society
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Colonies gain Independence

• What date was the Declaration of Independence
  Signed?

July 4th 1776
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America Thrives as an Independent Country

• Proving many countries wrong- The United States
  of America becomes stronger and stronger
• With the United states expanding westward and
  Russia expanding Eastward boundaries got tight

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Monroe Doctrine

• Passed by congress through President Monroe.
• Stated that European countries had no business in
  Western Hemisphere affairs.

• NO COLONIZATION
• NO INTERVENTION
• TRADE PARTNERS ONLY

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Based on the cartoon, which of the following best
explains the impact of the Monroe Doctrine? (A)
The United States would not allow foreign nations
to form alliances. (B) The United States would
not allow further European colonization in the
Western Hemisphere. (c) The United States would
serve as a negotiator between European
nations. (D) The United States would protect the
economic interests of Europe.