Impact of Exploration
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The Columbian Exchange or Grand Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres.
Trade
Major Effect of Exploration
It linked people from different cultures and
ended the isolation of the world's major
civilizations.
Western Europe used new sailing techniques and new maps/charts, making them more accurate.
After Columbus’s expedition the European powers took control of the seas.
The ‘Colombian Exchange’ is good because different areas in the world were able to trade goods and share and receive new ideas.
Disease
Many Indians died from many diseases such as chickenpox, measles, and influenza.
Africans were used as slaves in subsitute of Native Americans.(Pg. 80)
African people got tropical diseases.
The Spanish explorers told the middle and south Native Americans that they had a disease that only gold could cure. The Aztecs thought they were helping the Spanish cure their illness.
Slavery.
Slavery of the Indians had gotten a head start. It also led to the death of many Indians and Natives largely because of mistreatment, and also disease.
The Indians were forced off their land by the French, Dutch, and English, forcing them to move westward into lands of other Indians.
Plantation Colonies
A farm area that was used to enforce slave labor.
The slaves were forced to work slaves to harvest products
for trade and export.
Rise of Capitolism
For the time that America was a Capitalist society, was said to be the most productive time period for Americans.
For the constant need to expand, people need to be at their very best to expand and allow for the country to expand and prosper.
Slave Trade
Some historians estimate that more than 15 million Africans were forced to leave Africa to cross the Atlantic to be sold into slavery. In addition, millions of other Africans lost their lives during slave raids or during their forced removal to coastal forts where they would be transported to the Americas.
Trade Posts
By 1460, the Portuguese have trade posts set up along the west coast of Africa.
A Trade Post is where the trade of goods took place.
Africa
African slavery began
Christopher Clomubus
Columbus destroyed the Indians, by forcing them to do labor
Columbus returned to Spain with gold, treasures, and natives slaves to prove to the queen and king that his expedition was a success.
Many historians believe that Columbus was important to the Age of Exploration because he began the turning point for the Americas although his actions question his reasoning.