ACTIVITY

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

• 2 way distribution of plants & animals.
• This was the main cause for the "Great Dying".
• Brought new plants and animals into "new world" from the "old world".
• Europe took a special intrst in American food.
• The massive improve in the diets lead to a massive jump in the population

ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

• The "Great Dying" forced Europeans to look to Africans as other source of labor.
• Africans could survive the diseases that others couldn't.
• Africans were taken captive in war then sold.
• Traded slaves for rum, guns and other goods.
• Europeans carried the enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, voyage called Middle Passage.

COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION

• When Europe made a step in the form of a true global economy.
• People began producing more goods for sale rather than their own use.
• Kings hoped to increase their power through system of mercantilism.
• bankers and merchants laid the foundations for the free enterprise system.
• Developed new ways of raising in lending money.