Columbian Exchange
Where do black-eye Susans come from?
New World
What is the southern tip of Africa called?
Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope)
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Spain and Portugal divided the New World in 1494.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas from Old to New World.
What factors helped spur European exploration?
Sailing technology, the desire for wealth, and the spread Christianity.
Where does Yellow Fever come from?
Old World
Whose voyage was the first to make it around the world?
Magellan's Voyage
Why was Prince Henry important in the age of Exploration?
He promoted and funded Portuguese exploration.
What diseases were the culprits of the most Native American deaths?
Smallpox, measles, mumps, typhus, chicken pox.
What was the only disease brought from the New World to the Old World?
Syphilis
Where do Pumpkins come from?
New World
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The first to sail to India...and BACK!
What is the Dutch East India Company?
Trading company from the Netherlands that traded with Portugal.
What food was the poor person's staple in Japan and China?
Sweet potato.
What was the other way to get to Asia other than around Africa?
Travel overland to the mouth of the Red Sea, then sail east to India.
Which is from the New World?
Sugarcane
Chocolate
Watermelons
Chocolate
The Maluku Islands are also known as the _______ Islands.
The Spice Islands
Who was Tokugawa Shogunate?
A powerful leader that United Japan based on the rule of law, not the sword.
How did horses revolutionize life in America?
Native Americans abandoned agriculture and became nomadic.
Why did China not undergo widespread industrialization?
Industrialization went against Confucius beliefs and focused on agriculture.
Which of the following is from the Old World?
Peanuts
Lettuce
Marigolds
Lettuce
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
He was the first to pass the Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope).
What are five reasons the Ming Dynasty fell to civil disorder?
High taxes
Bad harvest
Corruption
Broke Government
Bad rulers
What was the most significant effect of the introduction of New World plants to Afro-Eurasia?
They were easier to cultivate and had more calories; the population increased.
How many ships did the Dutch have?
20,000