History Terms

The Columbian Exchange

• Who? :The Old world and The New world
• What? :The Exchange of thoughts, animals, ideas, food, and unfortunately...disease.
• When? :Around 1492
• Where? :On the Atlantic ocean
• Why? :To Colonize the New world

Atlantic Slave trade

• Who?: Africa, Europe, and America
• What?: Trading between countries across the Atlantic Ocean
• When?: Middle 15th century
• Where?: Across the Atlantic
• Why?: To get what they need for their economy

Enconmienda System

• Who?: The Natives and the Spanish
• What?: Native labor for Spanish protection and conversion into Christianity
• When?: Instituted in 1503
• Where?: in colonial Spanish America
• Why?: to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas.

Fur Trade

• Who?: The French And the Native Americans of North America
• What?: The trade of furry critters to make fashionable top hats. The rade was between the native Americans and the French
• When?: Began in 1500s
• Where?: North America
• Why?: To exchange weapons and tools for fashionable felt hats; to exchange miserable pests for handy tools and weapons

Cash Crops