Vocabulary
Biological Exchange
Animals in New World
Food Crops and people
100
Name the Three G's
Gold, Glory and God
100
What disease traveled from the new to old world?
What is Syphilis
100
Who brought horses to the Americas?
The Spanish
100
How did cattle and wheat brought by Columbus influence Europe?
Population exploded
200
What is the Renaissance?
A period of time after the Middle Ages that brought the rebirth of science, art and math
200
What disease killed most of the native tribes and why?
Smallpox and due to the fact that they never built up a immune system to these new diseases.
200
How did the introduction of the horse change the lives of the Plains Indians?(2 answers)
Led to total mastery of their environment and led to art,philosophy and religion.
200
What crop from the new world caused Europe's population to explode
The potato
300
What was the name of the sword the Spanish used against the natives?
What is the Rapiar
300
What was cattle initially used for?
Hides
300
How did the people in the Andes grow the potato?
Terrace farming
400
What two main animals did the natives domesticate?
Llamas and Alpacas
400
The introduction of the horse in South America led to what by the end of the 19th century?
Wealth
400
Who was brought to Hispaniola to grow sugarcane?
Slaves
500
What is the definition of a Astrolabe?
Global positioning tool
500
What sweet plant was brought from old to new world?
Sugarcane
500
What caused the defeat of the Plains Indians?
The extinction of there native animal the buffalo.
500
Name the five European countries that grew sugarcane in their American colonies?
French Dutch British Spanish Portuguese