1.4 Colmbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration

Improvements in Maritime Empires

Joint Stock Companies

• Investing in Voyages

Colombian Exchange

• Introduced Smallpox, Killing 50% of the population

• The introduction of new foods created the occasion for a more varied diet

• Europeans: wheat, olive, grapes

  Eventually Introduced rice, bananas, sugar

• Indigenous people: Maize, Potatoes, Manoie

• Enslaved people brought Okra

Animals

• Horses had a big impact on the americas

• pigs, sheep, cattle

Minerals

• Silver & Gold

• Price Revolution- Price for european goods rose steadily for 150 years

• Shifted from feudalism- capitalism