Columbian Exchange & Transatlantic Slave Trade

Africans gave up trying to resist capture by European slave traders.

Europeans started depending on enslaved people for labor in new colonies.

Europeans needed more enslaved people to manage the arrival of new colonial goods

Arab merchants expanded the slave trade into South and East Asia.

American goods were sold in Europe.

Enslaved Africans were sold in the Americas.

European goods were sold in Africa.

European profits were used to buy plantations in the Americas.

Africans were branded and separated from their families.

Africans died of diseases and mistreatment.

Many ships were sunk by pirates and privateers.

The captains of slave ships were poor navigators.

It had a negative effect on millions of Africans.

It prevented Brazil from becoming a prosperous country.

It caused Europeans to establish colonies in the Americas.

It caused Africans to unite and support the abolition of slavery.

to export manufactured goods to parent countries

to import luxuries from parent countries at discounted prices

to provide inexpensive resources and raw materials to parent countries

to reduce competition and tariffs

1492 CE

1492 BCE

1606 CE

1606 BCE

Americans trading goods to the Asians in exchange for their resources

An exchange of Colombian coffee

Europe trading goods to the Americas in exchange for their resources

An exchange of Colombian Culture

God

Glory

Gold

Gray matter