APUSH - Period 1: 1.04 Flashcards

Period 1 Flashcards for APUSH - 1.04

Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange

transmission or exchange of plants, animals, disease, knowledge about food and technology, as well as culture between the “Old World” and “New World” after 1492

Caravel

highly maneuverable Portuguese ship

Joint-Stock Companies

• businesses in which shares of a company’s stock could be bought and sold by shareholders (commonly known as a corporation)

• allowed for organize trade during the Columbian Exchange

Mercantilism

more exports than imports = the MONEY

Impacts of the Exchange for Europe

• population growth

• new crops

• feudalism to capitalism

Impacts of the Exchange for the Americas

• disease: smallpox, bubonic plague, chicken pox, flu

• decline in native population as a result of the sicknesses

• diversity in crops and livestock

Beasts of Burden

ox, donkey, etc.

Impacts of the Exchange for Africa

• establishment of slavery

• Atlantic Slave Trade