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The Columbian Exchange

Also known as

“The Grand Exchange”

Where two

worlds meet!!

Old World….

- all lands in the Eastern

Hemisphere (except

Australia).

-the known world to

Europeans in 1492

New World….

- land in the Western

Hemisphere including N.

America, the Caribbean and S.

America

- land unknown to the

Europeans before 1492

Christopher Columbus

- His accidental discovery

of the new world set off

an unbelievable chain of

events that have had

repercussions experienced

to this day

- the enormous widespread exchange of plants, animals, foods,

human populations (including slaves) disease, and ideas

between the Old World and the New World that occurred

after 1492.

The Columbian Exchange - defined

- It resulted in economic, political, religious and social

transformations

- Some of these adjustments were incremental, but others were

jarring, violent and even devastating

Cultural Diffusion: the spread of ideas, customs

and technologies from one people to another

Animals

Horse

Cattle

Pigs

Chicken

Rats

Bees

Goats

Sheep

Burros

Llamas

Alpacas

Turkeys

Guinea pigs

Old World to New World New World to Old World

Sugar Cane Grapes

Wheat, Oats, Barley

Bananas Coconut

Coffee Dandelions

Rice Soybeans

Melons Olives

Grapevines Clover

Peas Peaches

Pears

Lemons, Oranges, Limes

Tomato Corn(Maize)

Tobacco Peanuts

Squash Peppers

Papaya Manioc

Avocado Vanilla

Potato Sweet Potato

Cocoa Pineapple

Pumpkin

Plants/Food Old World to New World

New World to Old World

Wheel

Firearms

Plough

Iron working- steel

Glass

Stringed instruments

Alphabet and writing

Technology

Old World to New World

What was the long term result

of the native people of America

receiving horses and firearms

from the Columbian Exchange?

Sugar became the 2nd largest export from the new world in the 1500’s

With the depopulation of the indigenous people due to disease, what

solution was found to harvest the sugarcane crop?

What has been the long term result of slavery in the USA and Canada?

http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10166

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2008/07/07/digby-slur.html

Other New World to Old World

Gold & Silver

Old World to New World

Slaves

Atlantic Slave Trade

Slave Ship Floor Plan

“Coffin” Position

Effects of Global Exchange……

- Depopulation of aboriginal people

- Displacement and dispossession of aboriginals

from their land

- Conquest and slave labor

- Exchange of culture

- Spread of European language, culture and

religion (Eurocentrism)

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf

Rise of new forms of doing business

- mercantilism

- capitalism

- A dependence on certain

resources leads to struggle

and strife

- Increased demand for goods and services