Visual Sources: Maps of the Columbian Exchange

European Exploration, Perception of the Other, and the Columbian Exchange

How did the Columbian exchange link worlds?

The first map shows the Columbian exchange of agricultural products and disease while the second map shows the Atlantic slave trade that would develop in order to capitalize on these resources and compensate for the loss of native forced labor.

. What was introduced to the Americas from Asia, Africa and Europe? What did they exchange in return?

Turkeys, disease, and slaves in return for rice, horses, and disease.

Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Corn in return for disease, sweet potatoes, and pigs.

Cattle, sheep, and chickens, grains, and disease in return for peanuts, tobacco, maize and disease.

. What other forced transfer to the New World should be included in the Columbian exchange maps?

Slavery

Ideas and Culture

Gold and Silver

. Where was most of the Atlantic slave trade?

From West Africa to South America and the Caribbean

From East Africa to Brazil

From Africa to English North America

Visual Sources: Maps of the Columbian Exchange

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