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Jan 1, 1492
Beginning of the Colombian Exchange
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Sails
Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain, hoping to reach the East Indies by sailing due west across the Atlantic. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Aug 12, 1492
The Americas
The Colombian Exchange began with Christopher Columbus at first contact. He began the exchange of ideas, goods and disease when he first set foot in the Americas connecting both the New and Old World together. After Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, the animal, plant, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1866 -
Jan 1, 1500
Introducing from New to Old
16th century Spanish colonizers introduced new staple crops to Asia from the Americas, including maize and sweet potatoes, contributed to the population growth in Asia
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Jan 1, 1520
African Slave Trade
The Portuguese decided that the Indians were too fragile for plantation labor and, already active in the Atlantic slave trade, they began to import African slaves. Soon, the sugar plantation system became entirely dependent on African slave labor. (Old to New)
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Jan 1, 1542
The Gold Expedition
Hernando De Soto's expedition of conquest into North America lands on the Gulf Coast of Florida. De Soto's party of 600 men, traveling with at least that many livestock, seeks to discover gold and an easy water passage through North America to China.
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La Salle Canoes
French explorer La Salle canoes the length of the Mississippi River, the first European to return to the region since the failed De Soto expedition 140 years before. Where De Soto found dense settlements surrounded with carefully tended fields of corn, La Salle finds an almost uninhabited wilderness overrun with buffalo.
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The Comanches
On the southern Great Plains, the Comanche emerge as a distinct Indian nation, breaking away from the Shoshone to adopt a nomadic horseback lifestyle. The Comanche are the first North American Indian tribe to fully integrate the horse into their culture, and quickly use their equestrian skills to dominate the southern Plains.
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Potato Famine
Potato blight destroys the Irish potato crop, leading to the deaths of more than 1 million Irish by starvation and an exodus of perhaps 2 million emigrants from the country. The potato—originally cultivated in South America—has become the indispensable sustenance of the Irish people, and the crop's failure has catastrophic effects.
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End of the Colombian Exchange