The Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange
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The Columbian Exchange

• Global transfer of plants, animals disease
  after Christopher Columbus came to the Americas
• staples of diets changed (potatoes, tomatoes,
  etc.)
• populations in the New World decreased by 30-50
  because of European diseases (smallpox, etc.)
• mercantilism a nations strength depended on its
  wealth (via trade)
• control through the establishment of colonies
• raw materials, precious metals markets for
  finished products
• capitalism (making a profit) led to great wealth
• joint-stock companies (i.e.-British East India
  Company)

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British East India Company
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The Middle Passage

• Africans in America
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vd5qZ1MpevrI

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Slavery in the Americas

• New World plantations large agricultural
  estates
• because of disease, Native American populations
  were mostly wiped out
• slaves were imported from Africa to work on sugar
  plantations
• Triangular Trade
• Europe ? Africa manufactured goods (guns,
  clothing, etc.)
• Africa ? Americas slaves
• Americas ? Europe tobacco, sugar, molasses raw
  cotton
• Middle Passage trip from Africa to the Americas
• high death rates for slaves
• African slaves initially, prisoners of war
• with the demand for more slaves, interior of
  continent was raided
• Africas loss
• communities lost strongest young men women
• increased warfare
• decreased art/religious beliefs, etc.
• Africas gain
• assimilation of African culture into music arts
  of the New World

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Triangular Trade Middle Passage
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Economic Religious Structuresof African
Continent

• trade with European continent shifted routes
  towards the coast of Africa continent
• Morocco gained power
• Islam spread along North Africa downwards into
  sub-Saharan Africa
• Christianity no expansion except for Ethiopia
  small settlements in South Africa
• primary religions local/animistic religions

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Homework

• Read answer the questions from the following
  pages
• Recruiting Colonists (Read Like A Historian),
  pg. 480
• 2. Europes First Taste of Chocolate, pg. 482
• Question Why did many Europeans not like
  chocolate?
• 3. History and Economics, pg. 486
• 4. Forensics and History, pg. 490
• 5. Document-Based Questions, pg. 492-93

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Argumentative Writing

• Write a 200-word Argumentative Essay on the
  following topic
• Does the fact that Africans enslaved other
  Africans make the Europeans who engaged in the
  slave trade any less guilty? Explain.

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Explorative Assignment

• Read pg. 488-491 describe
• the life for slaves in the colonies
• the resistance elements of conquered slaves
• the positive negative effects of slavery