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AIM: What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?Do Now: 1) Fill in the blank map of Europe. At first, try to fill in as many countries as you can without looking at a map or book. I will walk around and do a desk check.Maps(Above, Columbian Exchange) What was exchanged? Task : Explain the effect(s) of ONE of the above on either Europe or the Americas.(Above – The Horror of the slave trade. Triangular trade worked in the following way. On the first leg, merchant ships brought European goods—including guns, cloth, and cash—to Africa. In Africa, the merchants traded these goods for slaves. On the second leg, known as the Middle Passage, the slaves were transported to the Americas. There, the enslaved Africans were exchanged for sugar, molasses, and other products manufactured at plantations owned by Europeans.)Image "The village on the lake became a place of crying." - Cecile Elkins Carter, Caddo historianI. European Empires in the AmericasA. The Great Dying—the demographic collapse of Native American societies1. pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere had a population of perhaps 60 million–80 million2. no immunity to Old World diseases3. Europeans brought diseasesa. mortality rate of up to 90 percent among Native American populationsb. native population nearly vanished in the Caribbeanc. Central Mexico: population dropped from 10 million–20 million to around 1 million by 1650d. similar mortality in North AmericaB. The Columbian Exchange1. massive native mortality created a labor shortage in the Americas2. migrant Europeans and African slaves created entirely new societiesa. brought plants and animals to the Americas3. American food crops (e.g., corn, potatoes, and cassava) spread widely in the Eastern Hemispherea. potatoes especially allowed enormous population growthb. corn and sweet potatoes were important in China and Africa4. exchange with the Americas reshaped the world economya. importation of millions of African slaves to the Americasb. new and lasting link among Africa, Europe, and the Americas5. network of communication, migration, trade, transfer of plants and animals (including microbes) is called “the Columbian exchange”a. the Atlantic world connected four continentsb. Europeans benefittedi. new information helped lead to the Scientific Revolutionii. colonies were an outlet for rapidly expanding European populationiii. shift in the global balance of power to favor EuropeVideo on the Columbian Exchange – see below:History Channel Documentary About Columbus Part 5 of 7 ................
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