Results of the AOD
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Created by:
CharlesHoward on November 13, 2008
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Was's History, Pre-IB 9 World History, RiahZ, Was's Euro History, OSHS IB
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Columbian Exchange | The exchange of goods and Ideas between the Americas (New World) and Eroupe (Old World) |
| Destruction of the Indigenous Economies | American Plantaions caused the calapse of native economies (based off of Nature), fences (no more roaming amimals), plowing (permanent farming, no longer nature based, desertification) |
| Mercator Projection | Created by Mecator, these were maps that gave longitude (East and West) and latitude (North and South) as strait lines (good for traveling) |
| Trans-Atlantic Centered World | The atlantic became the center of trade and the world (triangular trade) |
| Eurocentric Prception | It was the philosophy that Europeans were the greatest species of man, "civilized"(the white europeans) vs "uncivilized" (the colored peoples of the world) |
| Cultural Diffusion | New foods in Europe and Africa, new animals in the Americas |
| AOD in Asia | Limited Cultural impact, merchant-dominated, and joint-stock companies dominated Indian states (British East India Company) |
| AOD in Africa | Little cultural impact, "depopulation" due to slave trade, and economic displacement |
| AOD in Americas | Destruction of American Civilizations (Myans, Aztec, and Incas), indigenous economies (based off of nature) were destroyed by plantations, and European-diminated culture (mirrored culture of mother country) |
| Old World | The part of the Columbian Exchange that was a source of food stuffs (wheat, sugar, rice, and coffee beans), live stock (horses, cattle, and pigs), also brought diseases (SMALLPOX, measles, influenza and typhus) |
| New World | The part of the Columbian Exchange that was a source of food stuffs (corn, POTATOES, beans, and coco beans), tobacco, and precious Metals |
| Key American Products | indigo, rice, and tobacco (cotton only after 1790's) |
| Abundance of Precious Metals | wealth was no longer limited, was the driving force for the Industrial Revolution and Capitalism |
| Potatoes | this product of the New world was easy to farm and grew quickly, it was a main factor for the decrease of famine among the serfs and became a main staple of the poor man's diet |
| Small Pox | This was a devestating disease that became and epidemic among the indigenous peoples of the Americas |
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