The Columbian Exchange
Plants & Animals
Technology & Diseases
Ideas & Lasting Effects
100
Who named the Columbus Exchange?
Alfred Crosby
100
Who brought tobacco to Europe?
The Spanish
100
What did the native people use wheels for originally?
Toys
100
What towns, that we still have today, were once European colonies?
Jamestown, Virginia; St. Augustine, Florida; and Plymouth, Massachusetts
200
What was traded during the Columbian Exchange?
Plants, animals, goods, people, and diseases.
200
Crops were transported between the Americas and Europe. Many crops were able to grow in both places. Use the map to explain why.
a. each continent has a similar climate
b. the crops were very similar to each other
c. ocean currents made the trip to Europe faster
d. Europeans transported Native Americans to Europe
a. each continent has a similar climate
200
What percent of the native population died within 150 years of the Europeans showing up.
80-90 percent
200
Read the sentence.
"Should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them."
- Journal of Christopher Columbus
What motivated Christopher Columbus to enslave the Indigenous people he met?
a. religious beliefs
b. national pride
c. making money
d. curiosity
c. making money
300
What was the trade between the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia called?
The Columbian Exchange
300
True or False:
The Columbian Exchange helped expand people's diets worldwide.
True
300
What country and animal does silk come from?
China; silk worms
300
What does "polytheism" mean?
The worship of more than one God
400
Who explored across the Atlantic Ocean in 1494?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Diego Colon
c. the Iroquois
d. the Patuxet
b. Diego Colon
400
Europe domesticated many animals but there were very few domesticated animals in the Americas. Use your current knowledge to make a claim about why.
a. animals were treated as gods and left alone.
b. Indigenous people did not believe in interacting with animals.
c. Indigenous people were vegetarian and had no use for animals.
d. animals in the Americas could not be domesticated.
d. animals in the Americas could not be domesticated.
400
Europeans brought many technologies such as the (first paragraph):
Metal plow
400
Choose the term that best completes the sentence.
The __________ system forced Indigenous peoples to labor on plantations and in mines.
a. contract
b. gang
c. mit'a
d. sirviente
c. mit'a
500
What started this system of trade?
a. Asian plants grew well in the Caribbean climate.
b. Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage.
c. American Indians traded for steel tools and guns.
d. European plantation owners needed more labor.
b. Columbus returned to Spain from his first voyage.
500
How could the new animals brought to America cause problems?
They messed up the ecosystem and killed other animals by eating all of the food.
500
Why were diseases like smallpox more dangerous for Native Americans that for Europeans?
The Native Americans did not have immunity to European diseases.
500
Why did Europeans begin importing enslaved people from Africa?
a. so many Indigenous people had died that they needed more enslaved workers.
b. they felt that enslaving the Indigenous Americans was wrong.
c. there were not enough Europeans who wanted to live and work in the Americas.
d. Spanish people were not strong enough to work on the plantations.
a. so many Indigenous people had died that they needed more enslaved workers.