The Columbian Exchange

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus began a journey across the ocean with three ships:

The Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria

He had landed in present day Cuba and explored the Caribbean!

• Columbus' voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to European effort at exploration and colonization of the Americas. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the

mainland until his third voyage in 1498.

Effects Of Columbus on the Natives

• Haiti’s pre-Columbian population range as high as 8,000,000

• By 1542, only 200 were left. By 1555, the Arawaks were gone.

• As Native populations died out, Europeans supplemented slave labor with African slaves, beginning the Transatlantic slave trade.

Source: “Lies My Teacher Told Me”, by James Loewen

Identify the effects of the Columbian Exchange

“The Columbian Exchange”In 1972, the historian Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., proposed that Christopher Columbus's voyages to the New World produced even greater consequences biologically than they did culturally.The Columbian Exchange is the term Crosby coined to describe the worldwide trading of plants, animals, and diseases that happened because of the interaction between American Indians and Europeans

This process had a strong impact on both societies.

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The Columbian Exchange

Old World (Europe) to New World (Americas)

New World (Americas) to Old World (Europe)

Diseases Smallpox, Measles, Chicken Pox, Malaria, Yellow Fever,Common Cold, Influenza

Plants Rice, Wheat, Barley, Oats,Coffee, Sugarcane, Bananas,Melons, Olives, DandelionsDaisies, Clover, Ragweed,Kentucky Bluegrass

Corn (Maize), Potatoes (White & Sweet Varieties), Beans (Snap, Kidney, & Lima Varieties), Tobacco, Peanuts, Squash, Peppers, Tomatoes, PumpkinsPineapples, Cacao (Source of Chocolate), Chicle (Source of Chewing Gum), Papayas, Manioc (Tapioca), Guavas, Avocados

AnimalsHorses, Cattle, Pigs,Sheep, Goats, Chickens

LlamasAlpacasGuinea Pigs

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What was the Effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• Introduced to new animals and food for both worlds

• The diseases the Europeans brought with them killed up to 90% of the Native Americans in the New World.

The Native Americans living in America were able to take advantage of their newly acquired horses to hunt bison.

The Columbian Exchange led to the birth of the Florida oranges, Texas cattle, and Hawaiian pineapples.

The potato continues to be one of the major sources of food calories in the world.

Potatoes came from the Americas to Europe

The early Spanish conquistadors brought gunpowder to the Americas.

The conquistadors brought the Catholic church and priests with them and established missions such as St. Augustine, San Diego and San Antonio.

The Spanish also brought African slaves to work on sugar plantations.

Tobacco was brought from the New World to the Old World.

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