People
These people speak Spanish and colonized the Americas, West of the meridian.
What is Spain?
This sweet crop became the most profitable plantation product in the Carribean and Brazil
What is Sugar?
Some diseases spread by mosquitoes during the Colombian Exchange
What is Malleria and Yellow Fever
Spanish explorers brought these animals to the Americas, changing transportation, hunting, and warfare for many Native American groups
What are Horses?
European colonizers spread this system of written communication to many Native American societies through schools, missionaries, and government records.
What is Alphabet Writing?
These people speak Portuguese and colonized the Americas East of the Meridian and much of Africa's coast.
What is Portugal?
European settlers brought this grain to the Americas to make bread and other baked foods.
Wheat?
Farmers used these strong draft animals to pull plows and wagons in colonial agriculture
What are oxen?
Europeans used these advanced weapons to conquer and control many Native American civilizations during colonization.
What are Firearms?
These European people speak Dutch and landed in New York in the early 1600s.
What is the Netherlands?
This grain is often used in soups and animal feed, introduced to the Americas from Europe.
Barley?
These unwanted animals often traveled on European ships and helped spread disease to ports and cities
What are rats?
These Native American people spoke Quechua and communicated and recorded information using knotted strings called Quipus, and lived in the Andes.
What is the Incan Empire?
Enslaved Africans helped spread this green vegetable, commonly used in gumbo, to the Americas
What is Okra?
What are Chickens?
These Native Americans spoke Nahuatl and lived in modern day Mexico until the Spanish arrived.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This Asian crop became especially important in the southern American colonies because it grew well in wet fields.
What is rice?
Colonists raised these wool-producing animals in many parts of the Americas
What are sheep?