Columbian Exchange
Christopher Columbus afforded European countries the opportunity to explore and colonize North America in what became known as the Columbian ___________
Exchange
One benefit witnessed in the Old World after the Columbian Exchange is that the collective health of those in the Old World improved drastically due to the variety of ____________ imported from the New World.
crops
Roman Catholicism (Christianity) was introduced into the Americas by the _________________ from Spain and Portugal.
conquistadors
The Silk Road connected China and ___________ and had many side routes that branched off the main route/road.
Rome
When cultural elements make their way, via movement, from one place to another, this is known as ____________ Diffusion.
Cultural
The perilous journey to the Caribbean Islands undertaken by slaves captured in Africa during the Triangular Trade was known as the Middle __________
Passage
The Middle Passage endured by captured Africans during the Triangular Trade traversed this major body of water: _____________
Atlantic Ocean
The Columbian Exchange facilitated the movement of both flora (plants) and fauna (____________) between the Old and New Worlds.
animals
Groups of people traveling together along the Silk Road were known, collectively, as a ____________
caravan
An extreme dislike (or even fear) of foreigners or foreign concepts/cultural elements
Xenophobia
During the Triangular Trade, the following valuable resources were gleaned from various geographical locales:
From North America: raw materials (cotton/lumber)
From Europe: finished consumer goods (textiles/furniture)
From Africa: _____________ (needed as a labor source in North America)
People/ slaves
Collectively, Asia, Africa and Europe made up what became known as the ________ World after the Columbian Exchange
Old
During the Columbian Exchange, Old World explorers brought diseases, animals (like the ________- which drastically changed the lives of the Plains Natives) and new religions to various regions of the New World.
horse
The Silk Road's name derives from one of the many popular goods that travelled along its length- silk from _____________.
China
To understand that though your culture may be paramount to you, others have their own cultural practices that hold value to them is called _____________ Relativism.
Cultural
European slave traders often traded this particular consumer good in exchange for slaves along the west coast of Africa.
guns
Peanuts, maize (corn), tomatoes and pineapples are a few of the food items that made their way into the _____________ World as a result of the Columbian Exchange.
Old
Horses were introduced to the ___________ World during the Columbian Exchange.
New
The Kushan empire witnessed a robust economic growth thanks to the Silk Road- specifically from the ___________ they levied against the many products that passed through their empire on their way to Rome/China.
taxes
If one is ______________, he/she believes that their own culture is superior to all other cultures which fail in comparison with their own.
Ethnocentric
__________ from the Old World had devastating effects on the native populations of the New World- as the latter had never been exposed to such diseases and lacked immunity.
Diseases
During the Columbian Exchange, citrus fruits, horses and grapes were introduced into the ___________ World (Americas).
Consumer ____________ in Europe were made from the raw materials harvested in North America during the Triangular Trade.
goods
Merchants along the Silk Road often used the __________ (of deceased humans or animals) to help navigate the many paths along the Road itself.
bones
What does the nosey pepper do?
It stays 'jalapeño" business.
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