History in the Making

Brittany Wolford, Rachel Hadley, Danielle Gellermann,

and Taylor Barrett

Table of Contents

Columbian Exchange

Greed

Disease Loss and Gain

Slavery Trade

Columbian Exchange

• The Columbian exchange is a result of European exploration.

• They exchanged a variety of things.

• Livestock: they brought cows, pigs, horses, and sheep. Some horses got loose and eventually became wild, and then later on caught by native Americans who became skilled riders, and horses were a key element in hunting. Turkeys were brought to Europe and was a new food source.

• Crops: Onions, citrus fruits, bananas, coffee beans, olives, grapes, turnips, peaches, rice, wheat, and sugar cane were introduced to the Americas. The Europeans were introduced to were corn, the potato, the tomato, peppers, pumpkins, squash, pineapples, cacao beans, peanuts and the sweet potatoes.

• They also brought disease not voluntary.

The Native Americans were at the bottom of

the trade

Disease

Indians like these were killed not by the guns the Europeans carried but the

diseases. The Europeans brought with them disease. They brought bubonic

plague, chicken pox, cholera, influenza, leprosy, malaria, measles, scarlet fever,

smallpox, typhoid, typhus, and yellow fever.

Slavery

• Europeans passed a law called Encomienda that allowed the Spanish to take the land from the Native Americans that they lived on and use them as slaves.

• Most of them were not good slaves because of the diseases brought over were killing and making them weak.

Greed

• Gold, God, and Glory• As other countries heard and saw the riches of

Spain, they became jealous and wanted in too.• It suddenly became more then Gold , God, and

Glory, they were now looking for a northwest sea route, or passage route, to get to Asia.

• They wanted to be the first discover new land.• They wanted to spread God to the inhabitants of

any land they found.• And above all they wanted the gold that came

with it more than anything.

Loss and Gain

– Native Americans lost most of their population.

– The population, but in turn they gained new crops and animals, among those animals were horses which the Native Americans took great interest in. Even though at first they thought they were demons.

Trade

• Christopher Columbus wrote in his diary; we can trade for whatever we choose to give them.

• We can assume after this that they thought as if they controlled the trade.

• It soon became more than trade, it was in the Spanish favor, the Spanish used them and made them get gold and if they didn’t meet the quota ;in the words of the queen of hearts “ off with their head!”