Columbia Exchange
Triangular Trade
North America
South America
People
100
The year Columbus first sailed for India, eventually ending up in America.
What is 1492?
100
The four continents involved in the triangular trade.
What are North and South America, Europe and Africa?
100
This animal from Europe replaced the bison of North America.
What are cows or cattle?
100
This animal was domesticated by the Aztecs, and was the only species that made its way to Europe to augment European diets.
What is the turkey?
100
He petitioned the Queen of Spain to fund his journey.
Who is Columbus?
200
The two most popular crops imported to Europe from the Americas.
What are tomatoes and potatoes?
200
These were exported to the Americas from Europe.
What are tools, cloth and an assortment of manufactured goods?
200
This natural resource was in such abundance that the Europeans exported it as well as used it in excess to heat their homes.
What is wood or timber from forests?
200
Daily Double: This species terrorized the native people and ate many of their corn crops.
What is the pig?
200
They raped, pillaged and murdered in the name of God and the Queen.
Who were the conquistadors?
300
The best seller in Europe that caused many Spanish pig farmers, criminals and adventurous opportunists to flee to the ports.
What is Columbus' letter to Queen Isabella?
300
These are two cash crops that required slave labor.
What are sugar and tobacco?
300
Settlers from Europe replaced indigenous forests and trees with these.
What are fruit trees: apples, pears, peaches, etc?
300
The percentage of native Americans that were wiped out due to imported diseases like small pox, influenza, and the measles.
What is 50-90%?
300
The first settlement in Virginia that was named after this British king.
What is "Jamestown", named for King James?
400
The real driving force behind the success and proliferation of the Columbian Exchange was due to this.
What is Biological Imperialism, in other words, the migration of plants and animals around the world?
400
The middle passage was used for transporting this.
What are slaves?
400
Settlers nearly depleted this particular species, almost to the point of extinction, because it was in such demand in Europe for its hide ( fur).
What is the beaver?
400
This animal had not been present in the Americas since the Ice Age, but its population grew to 7 million within 150 years.
What is the horse?
400
The first European monarch to help organize and fund voyages to the New World.
Who is Queen Isabella of Spain?
500
Europeans thought that this disease was a punishment for their sins. They referred to it as the Spanish sickness and the French pox.
What is syphilis?
500
The reason that Columbus felt he needed to find a route to India via the oceans.
What is the fall of Constantinople by the Ottomans?
500
These were found in abundance in the eastern seaboard estuaries of the New World.
What are Alewives or river herring/shad?
500
The reason the conquistadors were exploring in South America.
What is to find gold, silver, and any other riches they could find?
500
They were the dominant tribe in North America when the British began to settle in the New World in the 1600's.
Who are the Powhatans?
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