1. The Columbian Exchange & Triangle Trade
Age of Exploration

2. The Columbian Exchange

3. What was the Columbian Exchange???
Columbian Exchange = the exchange of goods from Americas to Europe & from Europe to America
– new plants, animals, crops, foods, disease, technology, and ideas
This kind of exchange is called cultural diffusion
Influx of food results in population growth, especially in Europe
Influx of disease results in decline in population in the Americas

4. What was exchanged???
from Americas: corn, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, squash, beans, pineapples, tobacco, chocolate, quinine
from Europe: wheat, melons, grapes, bananas, coconut, coffee, sugar cane, honeybees, olives, onions, horses, cattle, firearms, smallpox, whooping cough, malaria, measles

7. The Triangle Trade
Middle Passage
**lower mortality rate**

8. What was the Triangle Trade???
Triangular Trade: network of trade between the Americas, Europe and coastal Africa
raw materials (sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc.) from Americas to Europe;
manufactured goods (guns, rum, etc.) from Europe to Africa;
slaves, ivory, gold from Africa to Americas

9. The Gun-Slave cycle New guns are used to get more slaves
Guns are given in exchange for slaves