Animals
What animals were the animals traded in Americas to Europe?
llamas
alpacas
guinea pigs
Name three crops/plants that Europe brought to the New World?
peach, orange, grape, melon, banana, rice, onion, radish
How did disease effect the Americas?
It spread across the Americas and killed many native Americans
What asburn's quote in 1947 about the role disease played the European arrival in the Americas?
It is more deadly to contract diseases than to be against any type of man or weapon. Diseases take more lives than man.
What are the biggest cultural changes Europe brought to the new world?
Religion and/or language
List 3 animals that traded in Europe to Americas.
If you got three of the following you get 200 points ヾ(•ω•`)o
Horses Cattle Pig's Sheep Goats Chickens
Name one plant that eventually changed the European diet and helped the Irish population double in size?
potato
How did the horse revolutionize Native American life?
Allowing tribes to hunt buffalo far more effectively.
What was the key factor to disease having such a dramatic effect on the people in the New World?
The devastating effect of disease on Native peoples was mostly due to the biological isolation and the limited intrusion of infectious diseases in America before A.D. 1492.
Technology from the Americas.
Farming methods, ponchos, and Canoes.
what place does the guinea originate from during the Columbian exchange?
Answer is Peru
if you got it wrong study more history :D
What food did the Europeans never tried by 1600s?
Until contact with Americas, Europeans had never tried tomatoes--by 1600s, tomatoes were included in Italian cookbooks.
What effect did corn and potato bring to Europeans?
Potatoes and corn became major food sources for Europeans allowing populations to increase greatly.
Nearly all Europeans diseases were communicable by...
Air & Touch
Technology from Europe.
Metal working, firearms, and ship building techniques.
When the conquistadors brought this animal to the New World the natives viewed it as "mystical, powerful and even spiritual beasts" What is it?
Horse
What was the big crop that the New World introduced to the Old World?
What is Maize/Corn
How did the increase of food production benefit everyone?
People lived longer and food prices got cheaper
Whats the most common diseases exchanged?
Smallpox, Measles, Chicken pox, Scarlet fever, Whooping cough.
Why were missionaries sent out into the New World?
To spread Christianity.
What are the effects of Europe trading pigs, sheep, goats and chickens to America?
These animals changed agricultural practices and transportation.
This is from Europe that allowed Americas to feed themselves and export large amounts.
Various grains (Wheat, rice, rye, barley, oats)
One impact of the Columbian Exchange on Africans was ____________.
The Columbian Exchange affected African people by bringing countless numbers of them to the New World as slaves. They worked on plantations to grow crops such as sugar cane and tobacco. It also stimulated European colonialism in Africa.
Which disease talks or describes about "North America - 90% of Native Americans gone within 100 years of Plymouth landing"?
Smallpox
What did missionaries do other than conversion?
Built schools and taught languages to natives, including Spanish, Portuguese, and German.