Columbian Exchange

What is the “Columbian Exchange”?

Major trade between old world(Europe) and new world (Americas) lots of trade with new items and new dieseses.

What are some of the most significant examples of things that were introduced from Old World to New World? What about from New World to Old world?

Old world to new world was lots of desiese brought over and lots of live stock was introduced. New world to old world was corn, tobacco potatoes.

Positive and negative effects of the Columbian exchange including the Taino Genocide and Genocide of other indigenous people.

Positive was lots of new items where being exchanged and world currency was created. bad things was Columbus taking over land and converting and killing the indigenous people. also the old world transfer lots of disease which killed

Sugar

brought over from old world to new world 

Smallpox

A deadly disease brought over from the old world.

Sheep

live stock that was brought from old world to the new world.

potatoes

crop brought from new world to old world

pigs 

live stock brought from old world 

Horses

brought from old world to new world and changed transportation for the new world

Corn

staple crop from the new world

Columbian exchange

major trade between new and old world

Beans

crop from the new world 

Tainos

Indigenous people that lived on Hispaniola which is modern day Haiti and DR majority of the group was killed when encomiendas came (Columbus)

Slaves

Mostly bought from Africa and was a major change in trade was the most wanted item for awhile.

Columbus

An explorer and navigator who took over the Tainos land and claimed them.

Bartolome de Las Casas

One of the first human rights activist fighting for the Indigenous people