THE COLOMBIAN EXCHANGE

A EUPHEMISM FOR EUROPEANS DESTROYING THE AMERICAS

READINGS
Nothing for this week, but that doesnt mean that it isnt coming faster than a speeding bullet Also, remember vocabulary. It will be in multiple choice format, so thats something good at least Dont get too used to celebrating for this class

MORE MAINSTREAM THAN ANTICIPATED

Despite their attempts to find a New World, Europeans were far behind the trends of the time Obviously the Indigenous people were there And there is statue evidence of the Kush Empire (Africa) before the Vikings Cocaine and Nicotine found in ancient Egypt Previous interactions had actually gone well, so the IP had no reason to think this would be otherwise

 Old World:

CROP IT LIKE ITS HOT

Old World
Dogs Horses Donkeys Pigs Cattle Sugar Cane Bananas Honey Onions Coffee Olives

Goats
Sheep Barney fowl

Peaches
Turnips Rice grapes

A RAGING DEBATE
Percentages? Bartelome De Las Casas Priest at Taino Wrote saying that the Indians were being tortured and mistreated The Good: Early Human Rights debate The Ugly: Decided to send Africans over instead

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF EXCHANGE
New World Afflictions: Treponematosis (ex. Syphilis)
Old World Afflictions: Variola virus (smallpox)
Gross sores that popped and came together

Dependent Survival: the body chose to keep the fetus if a woman is pregnant

Contagion
Didnt understand and yet
Sir Jeffery Amherst
Bouquet June 24, 1637

IMPACT OF SMALLPOX ON INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

No immunity; no smallpox in Western Hemisphere Causes

Domestic Animals
Traditional Medicine Genes Social Structure European Environmental Destruction Trauma