Exploration
Europeans traveled to his place in search of land, gold and opportunity.
What is the New World?
Europeans believed land could be this.
A crop grown mainly to be sold for profit is a called this.
What is a cash crop?
This was the journey enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
The exchange of plants, animals, goods and diseased between the Old World and New World is called this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Spanish explorers who came to the Americas to conquer land and gain wealth were called this.
What are conquistadors ?
Native Americans believed land belonged to this.
What is nature?
This crop became known as White Gold.
What is sugar?
Enslaved Africans were forced to work mainly on these.
What are sugar plantations?
Name one food that came from the Americas to Europe.
What are corn, potatoes, tomatoes, cacao?
This time in history when Europeans explored and traveled to new lands is called this.
What is the Age of Exploration?
These illness spread by Europeans killed many Native Americans because they had no immunity.
What are European diseases?
Sugar plantations were built mainly in this region of the world becaus Columbus discovered sugar plantations do well there.
What are Tropical areas ??
The system that forced people to work without pay and without freedom is called this.
What is Slavery?
Name one animal Europeans brough to the Americas.
What are horses, cattle, pigs?
Name one reason Europeans wanted to explore the New World?
What is to find gold, land, wealth and new trade?
About this percent of Native Americans died from European diseases.
What is 90 percent?
Sugar was called white gold because...
What is made the Europeans very rich?
The Middle Passage traveled across this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The mixing of different cultures and tradtions is called this.
What is cultural diversity?
Explain one major impact European explorers had on Native Americans.
What is disease, loss of land, slavery?
Explain why European diseases had such a devastating impact on Native Americans.
What is they had no immunity to the disease?
Explain why Europeans expanded sugar plantations in the Americas.
What is sugar was profitable and in high demand?
Why did sugar plantations increase the demand of enslaved labor from Africa?
Native America slaves died and the plantations needed more slaves to do the hard labor.
Name one positive and one negative effect of The Columbian exhange.
Positive: new food or goods were shared
Negative: diseases spread and many Native Americans died