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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Goods Echanged between the Americas and Europe
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Jan 1, 1492
sugarcane
Europeans introduced sugarcane to the New World in the 1490s http://bell.lib.umn.edu/Products/sugar.html -
Aug 12, 1492
Columbian Exchange Doscovered
This year was when the Columbian Exchange was initiated. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Nov 8, 1519
Horses
Conquistador Hernan Cortes, leading a small army of a few hundred soldiers on horses, arrived at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlian. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Jul 1, 1520
Small Pox in Tenochtitlan
Small Pox was spread by a soldier in the Cortes army, and ended up infecting at least half of the citizens in Aztecs capital city in Tenochtitlan. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Jan 1, 1525
Small Pox in Inca Empire
Small Pox made its way to the Inca Empire, wiping out more than 200,000 people. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Aug 29, 1533
Silver and Gold
Francisco Pizarro got his ransom demands from the Inca ruler Atawallpa including one room filled with gold and two filled with silver. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
Jun 1, 1539
De Soto Expidition
Hernando De Soto and his party of 600 men (with at least as many livestock) landed on the Gulf Coast of America in their expidition of conquest into North America lands. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
La Salle Canoes
La Salle canoed the length of the Mississippi River, where he found carefully tended fields of corn, abd an almost unhabited wilderness with many buffalo. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
horses
The Comanche fully integrate horses within this year. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html -
potato
potatoes became very important to the irish this year. It was originally cultivated in South America. http://www.shmoop.com/columbian-exchange/timeline.html
