AP World History: Modern / Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (c. 1450–1750)
4.3 Columbian Exchange
Notes
The exchange of plants, animals, people and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492. Disease (smallpox) killed most Native peoples. American crops (potatoes, maize, cassava) boosted populations elsewhere. Sugar plantations increased demand for enslaved Africans.
Practice
Which crop from the Americas increased populations in Afro-Eurasia?
Calorie-rich.
Horses and cattle traveled:
Old World animals.
The demand for labor on sugar plantations led to:
Brutal labor.
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