1. The Age of Exploration Outcome: Columbian EXCHANGE

2. What was the Columbian exchange?
The Colombian Exchange was the transfer of goods and ideas from one continent to the other.
Transferred foods from the “Old World” (Europe) to the “New World” (The Americas):
Rice
Wheat
Barley
Sugarcane
Olives
Kentucky Bluegrass
Dandelions
Oats
Transferred foods from the “New World” (The Americas) to the “Old World” (Europe):
Corn
Potatoes
Beans
Tobacco
Peanuts
Squash
Cocoa
Chicle (gum)
Pineapples
Avocados
Tomatoes
Peppers

3. Some crops grew better in their new lands.
Benefits of New Foods
Healthier and more diverse diets were now available in both the new and old worlds.
There was a rise in the permanent farm class in both North and South America.
Some crops grew better in their new lands.

4. The Economic Side of the Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism emerged 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: Colonized new lands to get raw materials for free (or at least cheaply)

5. Dark side of the Columbian Exchange
Food, animals, and unwanted poor people were not the only things transferred from nation to nation.
Smallpox and Typhus killed thousands of Native Americans.
Native Americans spread syphilis
to European traders, settlers, and
explorers.

6. The Triangular Trade: How it worked
America: sent raw materials (lumber, molasses, coal, & indigo)
Europe: sent manufactured goods (boats, rum, cloth, & gun powder)
Africa: sent slaves

7. Triangular trade route, contd.
While the triangular 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.

8. The Middle Passage
Africans were overloaded onto slave ships and sent from Africa to the Caribbean and Brazil.

9. Why Africans? Why not Native Americans?
Geography
Africa is within close proximity to Europe and its trade routes.
Native Americans knew too much about the Americas and were quick to get away.
Circumstances
Native Americans died from illnesses brought by Europeans at an alarming rate.
Africans had been exposed to European diseases and were immune to the number one killer: Malaria.