Gabbi Green
12/5/15
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Timeline
1433
China ends great expeditions
1492
Columbus’s first voyage
1497-1498
Vasco da Gama to India
151-1521
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
1571
Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto
1652
Dutch launch colony in southern Africa
1775-1783
American Revolution
Vocab
The British and Dutch East India Companies were trading companies. These companies gather large commercial fortunes by trading with their designated regions. The Dutch East India Company ruled over their trade country, China, and the British East India Company was about to do the same with their trade country, India.
The world economy was the international exchange between countries. These countries included China, Japan, the Middle East,
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Animals, plants, and diseases were exchanged. Smallpox was spread to Europeans, Africans, and New worlders during the Columbian exchange.
The battle of Lepanto was a nautical battle between Spanish and the Ottoman Empire. In the battle, the Spanish fleet of ships defeated the Ottoman Empire’s navy. The battle of Lepanto established that the hold Muslims had over the European navy was over.
Mercantilism was an economic theory. This theory emphasized the limiting of foreign imports and improving internal tax revenues. The core nations utilized mercantilism in their new world.
New France were the French colonies in America. The people of these colonies first settled in modern Quebec and thrived, the population was climbing. The first settlers of New France were sent by Louis XIV.
The Seven Years War was a war between France and Britain. France and Britain fought over land and money producing property. The Treaty of Paris settled the Seven Years War, dividing New France’s property between France and Britain.
Boers were Dutch farmers. Some Dutch farmers were sent to Africa during European expeditions. Boers started to take over Bantu farming land, establishing
The Columbian Exchange was to trade goods between the old world, like Europe, and new world, the Americas. They exchange many things like plants and animals that improved their economy. Some plants that were traded are potato, maize, and coffee. The animals that were exchange are horses, cattles, and pigs. There’s one more that was exchange because of the Columbian Exchange, that is diseases.
New France, is a term that was used to refer to the area that the French colonized in the North America. Jacques Cartier, Samuel Champlain and other early explorers opened up new routes along St. Lawrence River to allow further exploration works into the North America territories. Champlain explored other places down to the Lake Champlain building up settling areas.
Columbian Exchange- The Columbian Exchange was a way exchanging new resources between the new world and the old world. This impacted Europeans and Native Americans positively with the new materials now available, like technology, plants, and animals. There were some negative effects from these exchanges too, such as diseases. Made it easier to interact with other cultures.
The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage. The Columbian exchange affected some lives tremendously and others lives in relatively less significantly. The people who were most strongly affected were the natives of the Americas and those of Africa. The Native Americans were affected tremendously, mostly in negative ways. It is possible to say that they were helped by the Columbian Exchange because the exchange brought new species of animals to the New World. This improved the lifestyles of many native groups. However, the natives of the Americas were devastated by the germs that came to the New World as part of the exchange. Infectious diseases like smallpox are believed to have killed up to half of the of the native population since that population had no resistance to those diseases. Europeans’ lives were generally enriched by the exchange. Europeans got new foods like tomatoes and potatoes. They got corn and tobacco and chocolate. All of these new foods diversified their diets and made them more interesting. Other Europeans enriched themselves monetarily. Many Europeans came to the New World and
The Seven Year’s War was a turning point in British colonial society and their relationship with England. Before the Seven Year’s War, France controlled land in Quebec and greatly benefitted from fur trade around major waterways while England controlled land on the eastern coast of America in the thirteen colonies. It was critical for France to expand their territory to the Ohio River Valley to connect their Canadian holdings to those along the Mississippi River, but it was also critical for England to expand westward to the same area of land for their economic standing and supremacy. The fight over this territory sparked the Seven Year’s War with Great Britain fighting against the French and Indians. This war was a turning point in the British
The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vise versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and also diseases to the New World. The New World had many great qualities such as farmland for crops and large vast of land for animals to roam freely and also reproduce. During the Columbian Exchange people around the world also got to experience different things to eat that they don’t usually see everyday. The Columbian Exchange traded from Europe, to Asia, to Africa, and also to Europe.
The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vice versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and diseases to the New World. The New World had many great qualities such as farmland for crops and large vastness of land for animals to roam freely and reproduce. During the Columbian Exchange people around the world also got to experience different things to eat that they don’t usually see every day. The Columbian Exchange traded from Asia, in Africa, and Europe.
The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of new goods, and ideas between the new world and the old world, leading to changes in both cultures. Some positive effects of the Columbian Exchange were all the new livestock brought to the New World. The Americas gained horses, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs. However, the only notable species brought to Eurasia was the turkey. The exchange was a little more equal with the crops. Europe received maize (corn), potatoes, cassava, various beans and squashes, sweet potato, papaya, pineapple, tomato, avocado, guava, peanuts, chili peppers, and cacao. North and South America obtained wheat, barley, rye, sugar, bananas, citrus fruits, rice and cotton. Some negative effects include the exchange of new diseases. The new world gained smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox, and
The question that is foremost in our minds is “What is the Columbian Exchange”? A historian named Alfred Crosby describes this Columbian Exchange as the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the Americas after the arrival of Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean in 1492 It has been said that due to lack of human control during this evolutionary time in history of the continents, the Columbian Exchange greatly benefited the people of Europe and their colonies, but brought catastrophe to Native Americans.
The Columbian Exchange is about exchanging goods from the “New World” to the “Old World” and vice versa. During the Columbian Exchange, Europeans brought food, animals, technology, and diseases to the New World. The New World had many great qualities such as farmland for crops and large vastness of land for animals to roam freely and reproduce. During the Columbian Exchange people around the world also got to experience different things to eat that they don’t usually see every day. The Columbian Exchange traded from Asia, in Africa, and Europe.
The Columbian Exchange is often looked at and thought of for all of the good things it brought, like the exchange of animals, plants, and food between the Old World and the New World. But the Columbian Exchange also included the transfer of diseases between Europe and the Americas.
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and technologies between Europe, Africa, South America and North America. The Columbian Exchange began after Columbus discovered America. In addition to the transfer of biological and technological ideas and resources, a network of trade and communication was established. This exchange transformed each nation’s way of life. American crops that were transported to Europe, provided nutritional needs and helped to grow the population.
In the sixteenth century, France’s efforts to colonize North America was jeopardized by religious conflict between the Catholics and the Protestants. The French were interested in fur trade; this became the focal point of the economy and lead to the establishment of New France. The Company of New France would be in authority of this settlement. Quebec would become the first French settlement in Canada because of Samuel de Champlain’s efforts. Ultimately, New France would have about 15,000 residents by the 1700s.
The Columbian Exchange was coined by Alfred Crosby in 1942, which establish the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases during the Old World Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean. The exchange change the world for the best and for ill. It benefited the Europeans and its colonies, but it brought tragedy to the Native Americans. The devastation struck when Spanish came to the New World, unfortunately unaware of their diseases. Indians had not been exposed to smallpox, which resulted the death of 95 percent of the Indian population. “Historians estimate that more than 25 million people lived in central Mexico before Cortes arrived; fifteen years after his arrival, more than 8 million had perished.” (Schultz, p. 30, 2009 ) The diseases had move
The Mercantilist economic theory brings to view the nationalist effort that maximizes trade and the accumulation of gold and silver at the expense of other nations. This economic theory promotes national regulation of the economy and trade through the process of expanding the domestic industry. This approach went against free trade as it practices restrict imports and raise trade tariffs.