Trade, Empire and Columbian Exchange (1500s)

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The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World

(Americas) and the Old World (Europe).

It changed lives in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

The Columbian Exchange(Culture and Technology)

Religion and Language:European Christian missionaries went to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Missionaries taught their religion and ran schools.

The Columbian Exchange(Culture and Technology)

Technology:• Guns and steel• Using animals as technology (horses and oxen)

Commercial Revolution

European countries saw their colonies as a way to get rich. $$$$$$$$$$

Spain

England

Colony: land controlled by a larger country

Colony

• a settlement of people living in a new territory controlled by a home country (foreign government)

• European kingdoms set up colonies to control the land they discovered (stole)

Roanoke - English

MERCANTILISM

A system in which a government controls all economic activity in a

country and its colonies, to make the government stronger and richer

MERCANTILISM

Gain more Gold & Silver

To get more GOLD and SILVER

EXPORT MORE(SELL)

IMPORT LESS(BUY)

MERCANTILISM

Balance of Trade: relationship of goods imported to goods exported

1.Do you let your colony trade with other countries?

2.How many colonies do you want?

MERCANTILISMSo……what do we sell?

Basketball w/ipod curling wand/brush smile clockEdible clothes holographic videogames soft healsUrine tablets automated clothing heated slippersGps football adjustable shoes laser tag grenadeGum=meal computer shirt flavored veggiesSoda/tv alarm clock/stand on air bag clothesSelfdrying swimsuit microwave/ipod edible kendama evap bottle see in the dark contacts binder folded paperCouch tablet camelback for cars purifer ????Portable soda computer costume recorder penSpringy shoes pen/tablet shock undies

After a long concert, we always look for a cold

CHOKE!

I love my CHOKE almost as much as I love dunking

on people!

They don’t have CHOKE in jail…that makes me mad!

I’m YUMMY in your

TUMMY!Buy one kitten

meal and get one free!

GOBSTOPPER CANDY KENDAMA

Disco BubblesThe only party poppers with high definition

color!

A new color with every blow!

TONY’S TARGET

Market Economy

So……what do we sell?

Economic growth People had more money

People had more money

People can buy more

manufactured goods

Supply and Demand(use it to make business decisions)

Supply: things people want to sell and the price they can afford to sell it.

Demand: what people want to buy and how much they will spend for it.

Supply and Demand

D S P

Supply and Demand

D S P

Supply and Demand

D S P

COTTAGE INDUSTRY

Cottage Industry

• A system in which goods are produced in homes

• In a cottage industry, peasants made the goods that were to be sold by merchants

Cottage Industry

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Raw Materials

Manufactured Goods

Europe did not have to buy raw materials from competing countries. They didn’t allow their colonies to manufacture goods.

Capitalism

• system where citizens own property and make goods