Explore Columbian Xchange
BELLWORK
1. Why was it important for explorers to find a trade route to Asia? Explain!
2. List two ways the Exploration Era impacted empires/civilizations.
3. What is Triangular Trade?
4. What was the Middle Passage ? What was this journey like for Africans? (pg.221)
5. List three causes of Exploration.
6. List three effects of Exploration.
Effects of Exploration: Increased Trade
• Triangular Trade: Network of trade between the
New World, Europe and Africa.
• Exchange of animals, plants, cultures, slaves, and diseases between the New World and the Old
World. ( Columbian Exchange)
• Traded crops and livestock
• Diseases, especially smallpox, killed 50-90% of
Native populations.
• First appearance of African slaves
( Middle Passage)
Vasco de
Gama
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Old World Native Plants
• Citrus, apple, banana, mango, rice, wheat, coffee, and onion.
New World Native Plants
• Corn, tomato, potato, vanilla, rubber, cocoa, and tobacco.
Smallpox
Effects of Exploration: Slavery
Effects of Exploration: Cultural Diffusion
• Spread of cultural beliefs/ideas between different societies (religion, government, art, etc.)
Effects of
Exploration:
Decline of
Empires
Effects of
Exploration:
Building of
Empires &
New World migration
Other Effects of Exploration
• Increased power of monarchs
• Interconnected world (spread ideas!)
• Spread of
Christianity
• Circumnavigation
• New scientific discoveries
• New technology
Renaissance Movie Maker
Project
Reminders…..
• Block 1: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
• Block 2: Enlightenment & Study Guide work time
• Friday: Cause/Effect final essay
• Monday 12/15: Review; all late/missing work due!
• Tuesday 12/16: period 2 final exam
• Thursday 12/17: period 7 final exam
• Final study guides are due on the day of your exam!
• Each period is 2 hrs 5 mins done at 12:17
Colombian Exchange
• For bellwork today, you will read the “Columbian Exchange” handout. This is yours to keep, so as you read highlight/annotate, then answer the following questions:
1. Explain the interaction between the Taino and Columbus’ crew.
2. Define the Columbian Exchange.
3. How were Europeans able to conquer the Americas so easily?
4. Why were New World natives so susceptible to disease? How did diseases affect their populations?
5. Which old world plants/animals created problems for the New World?
6. Why did Europeans start using Africans as slaves instead of natives?
7. THINKER: In your opinion, was the Columbian Exchange more of a positive or negative development in world history? Explain!
