1. European Exploration: Immediate Effects
Ideas, Technology, Agriculture and Textile Commodities Exchanged

2. Immediate Effects of Early Exploration
Ideas – religion and culture
Technology – sailing and weaponry
Textile Commodities
Agriculture (see Columbian Exchange)

4. Slave Trade in the Americas
Causes of Slavery
Slavery and civil war in Africa
Europeans needed a new source of labor
Africans had immunity to European disease
Experienced Farmers
Did not know the land
Skin color made it easy to identify
Atlantic Slave Trade began ( , 9.5 million Africans were moved to the Americas)

5. Slavery Spreads Throughout the Americas
As more countries colonized the Americas, the need for cheap labor increased

6. Forced Journey
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage

8. Slavery in the Americas
Harsh Lives
Resistance and Rebellion

9. Consequences of the Slave Trade
Families Divided – most never reunited
Economic and Cultural development of the Americas
Many slave descendants still live in the Americas

10. European Impact on Indigenous Populations
Columbian Exchange
European diseases wiped out a huge percentage of Native population
Slave Labor
War