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Christopher Columbus
Europeans
Columbian Exchange
Atlantic Slave Trade
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Which place was Christopher Columbus looking for when he sailed west?
India (Asia)
100
Which country did the original conquistadors come from?
Spain
100
Which continents make up the Old World?
Europe, Africa, and Asia
100
What happened to native american populations that allowed for slavery to happen?
The native american population declined
200
What is the name of the people Columbus met in the Caribbean?
The Taino people
200
What led the Europeans to defeating the Native Americans?
advanced technology/disease
200
Name two diseases that were transferred between the old world and new world.
chicken pox, malaria, measles, smallpox, typhus, scarlet fever, pneumonia, syphilis
200
Europeans traded________________________for slaves
guns, technology, alcohol
300
Which country did Christopher sail from?
Spain
300
What were two reasons the Europeans began coming to the Americas?
Spices/Gold Land/Spread Christianity
300
What are at least two plants/crops that came from the Americas?
Potatoes, corn, tobacco, tomatoes, cassava (yuca),
300
The middle passage brought__________________to the Americas
Enslaved African People
400
Christopher Columbus wrote that the natives would make good______________.
Servants/Slaves
400
The Spaniards used the_______________ system to force native Americans to work
The Encomienda system
400
What was the Columbian Exchange?
transfer of plants, animals, crops, and diseases and people between the old world and the new world exchange of animals, people, plants, and diseases between the old world and the new world
400
Most slaves were brought to this region in the Americas__________________
Caribbean islands/countries
500
Why was Christopher Columbus eventually arrested with his brothers?
For the mistreatment of the Native Americans
500
Millions of native americans died because the Europeans brought_____________________
Disease
500
Name at least two things that Europeans brought over to the Americas
horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, grapes (wine), sugar
500
Many Enslaved Africans were already skilled____________
farmers