1. The Atlantic World 1450 – 1750: How far did the Atlantic World change?
AP World History
Richard Smart
Oakland Mills High School

2. Putting it into context…
The Afro-Eurasian Network
Silk Road
Indian Ocean Trade
Trans-Saharan Trade
American Trade
Regional
Stone Age
Meso-American hub
Indian Ocean Hub
Chinese goods
Indian goods
Roman/Chinese
Arab/European traders

3. Trade – the great Catalyst…
The Big Themes…
Trade – the great Catalyst…

4. The Columbian Exchange
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The Columbian Exchange
Americas: turkey, pumpkin, corn or maize, chocolate, tomato, tobacco, potato, chili pepper, peanut, pineapple, beans
Afroeurasia: citrus, cotton (varieties) coffee, sugar, tea, wheat, yam, banana, rice, millet, sorghum.
Plants, animals, and micro-organisms of Afroeurasia were exchanged with those of the Americas across the oceans.

5. The Middle Passage – Slavery
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Map by Robert Prom
Adapted from maps in Philip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969)
The Middle Passage – Slavery

6. Europe
Population growth
Migrations – America
Capitalism
Technological development
Agriculture
Americas
European migration
Plantations
Economic dependence
Silver
Native depopulation.
Slavery
Multi-racial societies
Commercial Agriculture
Africa
Migration - Slavery
Economic dependence
Depopulation
Gender imbalance
Agriculture

7. Any continuities?
Slavery had always been a part of the African economy and society.
Europe remains ethnically homogenous.
Traditional African culture, religion, society did continue.
Traditional Native American culture, religion & society did continue.