Columbian Exchange
This term describes the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Americas and the Eastern Hemisphere.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the year of Columbus’s first Atlantic voyage.
What is 1492?
Atlantic trade routes connected Europe, Africa, and this region.
What are the Americas?
People were taken by force from this continent and transported across the Atlantic.
What is Africa?
This video game lets players mine blocks, build shelters, and watch out for Creepers.
What is Minecraft?
Potatoes and maize traveled from this region to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
What are the Americas?
Columbus hoped to reach this continent by sailing west.
What is Asia?
This name refers to the forced Atlantic crossing of enslaved Africans
What is the Middle Passage?
This was the name of the ocean crossing endured by enslaved Africans.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This superhero carries a shield made of vibranium and is the king of Wakanda.
Who is Black Panther?
Horses traveled from Europe to the Americas and changed transportation for some of these peoples.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
These Spanish rulers funded his first voyage.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
Sugar and tobacco were examples of goods sent from the Americas to this continent.
What is Europe?
Enslaved Africans were forced to work on these large farms that produced crops such as sugar.
What are plantations?
This animated character lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is SpongeBob SquarePants?
Smallpox spread to the Americas and caused this devastating effect on Indigenous populations.
What is widespread illness and death?
Columbus reached islands in this region in 1492.
What is the Caribbean?
Manufactured goods, such as cloth and metal goods, were carried from Europe to this continent.
What is Africa?
This term means that enslaved people were treated as property and that enslaved status could be passed to their children.
What is chattel slavery?
In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, this character is Mario’s brother.
Who is Luigi?
Historians consider both the new foods that supported population growth and these harmful effects when judging the exchange.
What are disease, conquest, and forced labor?
Columbus did not reach Asia, but his voyages began sustained contact between these two regions.
What are Europe and the Americas?
The word triangular describes a simplified pattern of trade among three regions. It does not mean every ship followed this exact shape.
What is one complete triangle?
This is one reason it is inaccurate to call the forced movement of enslaved Africans an equal exchange.
What is they did not choose to go or have freedom to leave?
This Disney character sails across the ocean to return the heart of Te Fiti.
Who is Moana?