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5- COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE & SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLD ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVE: HOW DID THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE IMPACT THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS?

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5- COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE & SPAIN IN THE NEW WORLDESSENTIAL OBJECTIVE: HOW DID THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE IMPACT THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS?

Introduction Following Columbus’

voyage to America, Spain worked to gain control over North and South America

Explorers began making great strides in discovering new parts of the world

Leif Ericson First European to

discover America in th eyear 1000

Christopher Columbus Re-discovers America,

causing the Old and New worlds to interact for the first time.

Amerigo Vespucci Mapped the New World

and discovered it was its own continent; who the Amercias are named after.

Ferdinand Magellan Led first voyage to

circumnavigate the world

Hernan Cortes Conquered the Aztec

Empire

Francisco Pizzaro: Conquered the Inca

Empire

Columbian Exchange

Definition: Columbian Exchange Transfer of animals, plants and disease

from the “New World” and the “Old World”

Old World: Africa, Asia and Europe

New World: North and South America

Random Question

If we were to make a breakfast buffet for this class, what should we have for it?

Columbian Exchange New World gifts:

Corn Potatoes Tomatoes Pineapple Tobacco Pumpkins Turkeys Chocolate Peppers

Columbian Exchange Old World Gifts:

Cattle Horses Sheep Wheat, Rice, Oats Sugar cane Bananas Citrus Fruits Coffee Onions

Old World Advantages

Disease Main disease: Smallpox

Others: Measles and Typhus

Smallpox causes painful boils, fever, death

Europeans were unaffected because of immunities

Millions of Natives die from smallpox brought by Europeans

Old World Advantages

Technology Guns/Cannons Ships Steel Armor

Horses Faster than native

domesticated animals

Carry supplies to battles

Old World Advantages

Significance: Cortes uses these advantages to conquer the Aztecs. Francisco Pizzaro will also use them to conquer the Inca

Encomienda System

Definition: Gave Spanish settlers the right to tax and demand labor from Native Americans

Settlers allowed to punish Natives anyway they wanted

Natives forced to adopt Catholicism

Encomienda System

System eventually failed because… Natives were

infected with Smallpox

Knew the land and escaped

Continually attacked settlements