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The Columbian Exchange

A Story of Geography, Trade, & the Migration of Goods & People

Cory May - 4/18/2011

What was the Columbian Exchange?

A widespread exchange of plants, animals, cultures, humans (free & slave), diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World

Essentially started after Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas in 1492.

The Beginning: European Voyages

Two Different Worlds: Native Crops

OLD WORLD

Citrus Fruits Apples Bananas Mangoes, Watermelons Grapes Onions Coffee Wheat Rice Cinnamon Almonds, Walnuts Oats, Barley Tea Soybeans, Lettuce

NEW WORLD

Maize Tomatoes Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes Cassava (Manioc/Yucca) Vanilla Para (Rubber Tree) Cacao – Chocolate Tobacco Chili Peppers, Paprika Beans Wild Rice Strawberries Sunflower

Two Different Worlds: Native Animals

OLD WORLD

Horses Camels Chickens – Eggs Cows – Milk, Cheese Goats – Milk, Cheese Pigs Sheep Geese Cats (Domestic) Donkey Honey Bee

NEW WORLD

Alpacas Llamas Guinea Pigs Turkeys Minks

Two Different Worlds: Diseases

OLD WORLD

Plague Chicken Pox Cholera Influenza Malaria Measles Smallpox Typhoid Scarlet Fever Leprosy Common Cold

NEW WORLD

Syphilis Yaws

To Europe

•Maize (Corn)•Potatoes•Sweet Potatoes•Tomatoes•Turkeys•Sugarcane, Cacao, & Tobacco – processed & sent back to Europe from the Americas

To the Americas

•Horse•Cattle/Cows•Sugarcane, Coffee•Pigs•Chickens•Wheat•Goats & Sheep•All Old World Diseases•Honey Bees•Citrus Fruits•Stone Fruits

To Africa & Asia

•Peanuts•Cassava (Manioc/Yucca)•Sweet Potatoes•Chili & Paprika•Maize (Corn)•Vanilla•Cacao•Rubber

Benefits of the Exchange

Exchange of Food Sources – New Growing Regions for Crops

Increase in Human Population from new crops/goods

World Connections Flourish People Migrate to Different

Continents Cultures Intermingle/Spread Across

the World Trade Flourishes – New goods &

routes

Negatives of the Exchange

Many die from the transmission of new diseases, mainly Native Americans

Opens up the world to slavery, the slave trade takes off after the start of this exchange

Stability on one crop: ex: the Potato and the Irish Potato Famine

Facts of the Columbian Exchange

For facts and further information on the Columbian Exchange we will visit: http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exch

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