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Columbian Exchange (1400s – today)

Columbian Exchange (1400s – today). The Flat Earth Theory (c. 1492 CE). Atlas Statue (c. 100 CE ). European Exploration. After 1415, European explorers made voyages across the seas towards the east and west.

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Columbian Exchange (1400s – today)

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  1. Columbian Exchange(1400s – today)

  2. The Flat Earth Theory (c. 1492 CE)

  3. Atlas Statue (c. 100 CE)

  4. European Exploration • After 1415, European explorers made voyages across the seas towards the east and west. • By 1519, Spanish ships had circumnavigated the globe. Others set out in search of wealth and adventure. Christopher Columbus 1492 Vasco daGama 1498 Ferdinand Magellan 1519

  5. The Exchange • Columbus inadvertently accelerated trade around the world • Columbian Exchange = The exchange of plants, animals, and pathogens between the Old World and New World which occurred after Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage.

  6. New crops like potatoes spread and improved nutrition worldwide. Luxury products like chocolate meant new cultural habits for those with money to spend. New World  Old World

  7. Global cash crops like sugar were grown on large plantations with slave labor. Plains woman riding a horse to hunt buffalo in the 1800s Old World  New World Caribbean sugar plantation 1600s Animals introduced to the Americas, such as the horse, changed indigenous groups’ ways of life.

  8. The Great Dying • Great Dying = the collapse of Native American populations from diseases like smallpox and influenza carried by European conquerors. • Native Americans had no immunity to these diseases. • By some accounts, the population of the Americas fell from about 22 million in 1500 to less than 1 million in 1640

  9. Examples of Trade

  10. Compass • Navigational instrument using the four cardinal points

  11. Caravel • Small Portuguese ship used off the West African coast

  12. Carrack • Large Portuguese ship used for ocean travel

  13. Galleon • Large Spanish ship with multiple decks used for ocean travel

  14. Bullion • Bars of gold, silver, and other precious metals in bulk form

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