Explorers
This person was the first person to try and find a route to India by sailing West in 1492. He then discovered the "New World".
Christopher Columbus
This group of people were used for slavery before people from Africa?
Native Americans
The Columbian Exchange was a trading of food/animals/goods between these two places.
the Old World and the New World.
This person was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with being the first person to sail all around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
The Middle Passage is...
Middle Portion of the Triangle Trade when enslaved Africans were forced on ships heading to the New World
This was the worst thing that traveled from the Old World to the New World on the Columbian Exchange.
disease (smallpox)
This person was the first explorer who founded a sea route from Europe to India by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco Da Gama
Africans were targeted for slavery because.... (2 reasons)
(1) African were already exposed to the diseases that wiped out the Native Americans and (2) slavery was already seen in Africa through the spread of Islam.
__________ was from Europe and _____________ was from the Americas, but these two crops would lead to large plantations being made to grow these crops in the New World.
Sugar and Tobacco
This French explorer is the first European to make French claims in North America, navigate the Lawrence River, and is even credited with naming Canada.
Jacques Cartier
About __________% of slaves did not survive the Middle Passage and about ____________ million slaves were sent to the New World by the Middle Passage.
20% and 15-20 million
These two food items were the most important goods traded East in the Columbian Exchange?
Potatoes and Corn
This English explorer circumnavigated the world and found the Straits of Magellan and explored parts of the New World.
Sir Francis Drake
The Atlantic Slave Trade's effects were... (2 effects)
the loss of many cultures and generations in the continent of Africa and an African Diaspora (the spreading of African culture all of the world).
These are long term effects of the Columbian Exchange. (There are multiple, but I only need two)
Increase in food supply and then population
Population shifts due to migration to the New World
New Food/Animals being introduced to new parts of the world
Disease coming to the Americas and wiping out large numbers of Native Americans
It lead to the Atlantic Slave Trade