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This sweet crop became the most profitable plantation product in the Carribean and Brazil
What is Sugar
A highly contagious, deadly viral disease characterized by high fever and a distinctive, progressive skin rash
What is Smallpox?
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?
We speak our own language but it was influenced by French, West African, Spanish, and Native American.
What is Creole
European settlers brought this grain to the Americas to make bread and other baked foods.
A highly contagious, air-borne viral disease that causes a high fever, cough, runny nose, red watery eyes, and a distinct red rash all over the body
What is Measles?
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?
This grain is often used in soups and animal feed, introduced to the Americas from Europe.
a group of infectious, bacterial diseases transmitted to humans by fleas or lice. Characterized by high fever, severe headache, and a rash
What is Typhus?
These unwanted animals often traveled on European ships and helped spread disease to ports and cities
What are rats?
Enslaved Africans helped spread this green vegetable, commonly used in gumbo, to the Americas
What is Okra?
What are Chickens?
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?