The Columbian Exchange

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• Plants, animals, ideas and diseases shared between the Old World (Europe, Aisa, Africa) and the New World (Americas) following Columbus's voyages!

• Exchange by Christopher Columbus

• Native Americans

• Ideas by group!

Europe, Asia & Africa

• Old World

• New World

North & South America

• New World

• Old World

Smallpox, influenza, chicken pox, yellow fever, malaria

• Old World diseases

• New World diseases

Wheat, oats, rice, sugar cane, apple, banana, coffee

• Old World plants

• New World plants

Corn, cacao, tobacco, tomato, potato, sweet potato, vanilla, pumpkins, squash

• New World plants

• Old World plants

Cattle, horse, pig, sheep, goats, chickens

• Old World plants

• New World plants

turkey, llama, guinea pig, alpacas

• New World animals

• Old World animals

*Many Native Americans died from diseases, and fighting against being enslaved for labor.*Africans were kidnapped, and enslaved for labor in the Americas.

• Negative Effects of Columbian Exchange

• Exchange Effects

Very large farms where people grow cash crops.

• plantation

• planting by farming