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Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange. Columbian Exchange: global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and food as a result of European Exploration. Columbian Exchange. Global diffusion of biological goods (food, disease, animals, plants) Began in the 1400s

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Columbian Exchange

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  1. Columbian Exchange

  2. Columbian Exchange: global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and food as a result of European Exploration

  3. Columbian Exchange • Global diffusion of biological goods (food, disease, animals, plants) • Began in the 1400s • Corn and potatoes were most important – cheap, easy to grow, highly nutritious

  4. Population changes Americas ↓ because diseases Europe ↑ because new foods make people healthier

  5. Atlantic Slave Trade Page ?

  6. Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas

  7. Why Africans? • Slavery had existed in Africa since the 600s when Muslims enslaved non-Muslims • Most Native Americans were killed by European diseases • Many Africans had immunity • Africans were unfamiliar with the Americas  less likely to escape or have allies.

  8. By 1870 around 9.5 million Africans were imported to the Americas in bondage. • Majority of slaves worked on large sugar, tobacco, and coffee plantations.

  9. Middle Passage: the middle leg of the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought Africans to the West Indies, and N+S America Roughly 20% did not survive the journey (disease, cruel treatment, suicide).

  10. Impact AFRICA • Many societies lost entire generations of their healthiest people • Families were torn apart AMERICAS • Colonies became profitable • African culture influenced many societies throughout the Americas.

  11. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of manners [morals].”October 1787 Abolition of slave trade in England Slave Trade Act 1807 (outlawed all British involvement in the Atlantic Slave Trade)

  12. OlaudahEquiano(1745-1797) • Key player in campaign to end slavery • 1789: wrote and published, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano

  13. Triangular Trade Page ?

  14. Triangular Trade: transatlantic trading route connecting Africa, Europe, and the Americas

  15. Columbian Exchange+Atlantic Slave Trade=Triangular Trade

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