America Before Columbus, Part 1
One of the domesticated animals of the Americas.
Llama, Turkey
Estimated percentage of Americans killed by European disease.
50%-90%
The interactions between people and the environment of Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
Image - A map of illegal slave-trade routes to the United States used between 1808 and 1860.
The red arrows indicate this.
Slave smuggling routes (following the outlaw of slavery in 1808 and up to the Civil War).
Triangular Trade was trade among these continents.
Europe, Africa, Americas (North and South).
A domestic animal responsible for the spread of smallpox, influenza, measles, and other deadly diseases in the Americas.
Cow, pig, goat, sheep, horse (European)
Two well-known American civilizations destroyed by Spanish conquistadors within 40 years of their arrival.
Inca, Aztec
These people were introduced to corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and chocolate for the first time.
Europeans
Image - A photograph of the view from inside the Maison des Esclaves (Slave House) of the “Door of No Return,” Goree Island, Senegal.
The "Door of No Return" in the photo refers to this.
The recently enslaved person is heading for the New World and a life of slavery, if they survive the journey.
The expansion of Triangular Trade depended on the labor of these people.
Enslaved Africans
These two resources were massively depleted (used up) by Europeans.
Wood/Forests, Fish
This European domesticated animal transformed the lives of Americans.
Horse
Lemons, bananas, pigs, and wheat did not exist on this continent prior to the Columbian Exchange.
North and South America
Image - An advertisement for a slave auction in Charleston, South Carolina.
The audience of this poster.
Slave owners/buyers
As natural resources left the Americas for Europe, these would return to the Americas or Africa made from the natural resources.
Manufactured goods (tools, weapons, furniture, cloth, etc)
Two most prominent or important crops coming from the Americas.
Potato, Corn
Key European crop that thrived in the Americas and could be stored for long periods.
Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye
Isolation of Americans from the rest of the world (Atlantic & Pacific Oceans) allowed this to devastate their population.
Disease (small pox, influenza, measles, mumps, etc.)
Image - An illustration of a woman and child on the auction block.
The woman and the child could represent this.
Families being torn apart, a woman and child being sold as property, fear, etc.
Sugar, grown in the Americas, was consumed mostly by this group of people.
European elites, wealthy Europeans
Europe had the same population as the Americas in 1/10 the space. Give a reason how they fed so many people with such less space.
Intensive farming (high production crops like wheat fallow fields, domestication (pigs, sheep, etc), wind and water power to process food, etc.
One way in which Europeans directly or indirectly transformed the American landscape.
releasing domesticated animals into the wild (pigs, horses), iron plow, planting crops (grains, fruit trees), building forts/towns etc.
The reduced labor supply for Europeans caused by disease to Native Americans led to this.
Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery
Image - A map of the slave trade in Africa that shows the regions of most intense activity.
This graphic or visual on the map indicates the most intense areas of slave trading.
Dark shading (western, central, southern Africa).
After 1808 in the United States this illegal activity became a very profitable part of Triangular Trade.
Illegal Slave Trade