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Animals
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Diseases
Miscellaneous
Bonus
100
Name one animal which multiplied at unprecedented rates in America
Any of these: pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, goats
100
Name one crop/plant that Europe brought to the New World
peach, orange, grape, melon, banana, rice, onion, radish
100
Name one disease from Europe to America
any of these is correct: influenza, measles, chicken pox malaria, diphtheria, small pox, typhus
100
What is New World?
America
100
what was the plant that Europeans switch to for better calories
potatoes
200
What animal was first animal of conquest?
Horse
200
Cultivation of ( ) created the major demand for slavery throughout plantation economy.
Sugarcane
200
( ) had little immunity to European diseases.
Native Americans
200
What is Old World?
Europe
300
Hides and wool were produced because of these animals:
Pigs, cattle, sheep
300
This is from Europe that allowed Americas to feed themselves and export large amounts.
Wheat
300
Overall population loss between 1500 and 1650 was approximately ( ) %.
50-90
300
Who named the cross continental flow between Old and New World as "the Columbian exchange"?
Alfred Crosby
400
Americas from Mexico southward became largest ( )-breeding region
Horse
400
Name one plant that eventually changed the European diet.
potato, maize, beans, peanuts, pumpkin, pineapple, sweet potato
400
Especially this disease killed millions in America
small pox
400
What is Columbian Exchange?
the massive exchange of agricultural goods, animals, slave labor, communicable diseases, and ideas between New and Old World
500
Name one animal that led to economic exploitation of Americas
Pigs or sheep or cattle
500
Which 2 crops became a major staple in European farming?
Maize and Potato!
500
Why did Native Americans lack immunity?
Native Americans were more susceptible to diseases than Europeans because of no earlier exposure.
500
When did the Columbian Exchange start?
1492