Date: 5/2/15
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1.04 Notes Guide
“Global Trade Rocks the World”
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I. Columbian Exchange
Transatlantic trade of crops, technology, and culture between the Americans and
Europe, Africa and Asia
It began in 1492 with Columbus’s first voyage.
A. Europeans Gain Wealth
Europeans brought to the Americas: wheat, cows, horses , firearms, wheels, laws, languages, and customs
Europeans returned from the Americas: peanuts, pineapples, tomatoes, potatoes cocoa and tobacco
B. Native Americans Devastated
Misery brought by the Europeans far outweighed the benefits diseases like smallpox, typhus, and measles spread rapidly devastating entire
Native American populations
II. Triangular Trade Triangular : Trade between the Americas, Europe and Arica Plantations : large farms that produced crops for sale (also known as “cash crops”) A. Africans Enslaved
Plantations required huge numbers of workers who labored long hours
The first enslaved Africans arrived I the Americas in 1517
Europeans constructed a cruel system to supply slaves to the Americas
Slaves were regarded as property.
B. Middle passage
Part of triangular trade
Africans were forcibly taken from Africa to slavery in the Americas
Terrifying journey across the ocean in the hull of a slave ship
III. Effects of the Columbian Exchange
Causes:Desire to accumulate wealth A rebirth of a spirit of inquiryImproved seafaring technology
Which Led To:
Europeans exploring the Americas
Which Caused: (Effects) An exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the
Americas begins.European diseases devastate Native American populations.Europeans enter the West African slave trade .
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