From the 15th to 18th century, the global network flourished from the ideas that traveled with commodities. The Columbian Exchange, the Silver Circuit, and the Human Trade were up amongst some of the commodities that forever changed the world. These commodities are still carried out in today’s society, just more advanced than the 15th centuries’ were.
The Columbian Exchange was as known as “the Great Exchange”, refers to a sea trade between the New and Old World (American and Afro-European hemispheres). The sea trade traveled along the path from Europe and Africa the Americas. The exchange included everything for ideas, crops, and animals to food, technology and disease. Crops were among the most important of this Exchange. Before the Exchange …show more content…
It was the Exchange that brought about a lot of crops and animals were introduced to both Worlds. Harvested crops included potato, tomato, maize, cacao and tobacco, to the Old World and rice, wheat, apples, bananas and coffee to the Old World. Interesting fact stated without the exchange Columbia didn’t know what coffee, as Switzerland didn’t know what chocolate was, either. The Old World brought over horses which changed the way Native Americans lived and hunted food. Having horses was a symbol of wealth and made hunting much easier. The arrival of Europeans has been estimated that 80-95 percent of Native Americans died after the Columbian Exchange began. The primary reason behind their deaths was due to disease. The widespread diseases in Europe and Asia over time led to numerous people developing immunity against them but it was introduced to the Americas, the natives had no natural immunity against them. Diseases include smallpox, measles, malaria, typhus, chicken pox and yellow fever were among the deadly diseases which were transferred from Old World …show more content…
The transatlantic slave trade originated as a lack of work in the American colonies and later the United States. The first slaves were, "Indian" people from the Americas, used by the Europeans but they were not enough and were quickly written off because of the European illnesses. It was difficult to get Europeans to immigrate to the colonies because of the massive amounts of work the land needed. To meet this demand for this, European’s looked towards Africa. African slaves were brought to Europe and the Americas to supply cheap labor. The ships from Europe would carry loads of trading products to Africa, in exchange trade for slaves. They would take to the New World, where they sold them and picked crops, that was already harvested by slave labor. Majority of the slaves brought to the New World and used to produce sugar, the most labor intensive crop. But others were employed harvesting coffee, cotton, and tobacco, keeping house and in some cases in mining. Sugar was the reason that so many Africans slaves were shipped to the New
The Columbian Exchange was as known as “the Great Exchange”, refers to a sea trade between the New and Old World (American and Afro-European hemispheres). The sea trade traveled along the path from Europe and Africa the Americas. The exchange included everything for ideas, crops, and animals to food, technology and disease. Crops were among the most important of this Exchange. Before the Exchange …show more content…
It was the Exchange that brought about a lot of crops and animals were introduced to both Worlds. Harvested crops included potato, tomato, maize, cacao and tobacco, to the Old World and rice, wheat, apples, bananas and coffee to the Old World. Interesting fact stated without the exchange Columbia didn’t know what coffee, as Switzerland didn’t know what chocolate was, either. The Old World brought over horses which changed the way Native Americans lived and hunted food. Having horses was a symbol of wealth and made hunting much easier. The arrival of Europeans has been estimated that 80-95 percent of Native Americans died after the Columbian Exchange began. The primary reason behind their deaths was due to disease. The widespread diseases in Europe and Asia over time led to numerous people developing immunity against them but it was introduced to the Americas, the natives had no natural immunity against them. Diseases include smallpox, measles, malaria, typhus, chicken pox and yellow fever were among the deadly diseases which were transferred from Old World …show more content…
The transatlantic slave trade originated as a lack of work in the American colonies and later the United States. The first slaves were, "Indian" people from the Americas, used by the Europeans but they were not enough and were quickly written off because of the European illnesses. It was difficult to get Europeans to immigrate to the colonies because of the massive amounts of work the land needed. To meet this demand for this, European’s looked towards Africa. African slaves were brought to Europe and the Americas to supply cheap labor. The ships from Europe would carry loads of trading products to Africa, in exchange trade for slaves. They would take to the New World, where they sold them and picked crops, that was already harvested by slave labor. Majority of the slaves brought to the New World and used to produce sugar, the most labor intensive crop. But others were employed harvesting coffee, cotton, and tobacco, keeping house and in some cases in mining. Sugar was the reason that so many Africans slaves were shipped to the New