The Columbian Exchange
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Old and New Worlds after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Source 2 says that the Indigenous peoples were forced to live in what kinds of conditions that were uncomfortable?
What is inhospitable conditions?
Source 4 describes the state of mining in which city in Bolivia?
What is Potosi?
According to Source 6, this labor system granted colonists the right to Indigenous labor in New Spain.
What is encomienda?
This is the name of the set of paintings in Source 7.
What is The Casta Paintings?
One major long-term impact of the Columbian Exchange on Indigenous Americans was the spread of these deadly biological agents.
What are diseases?
According to an Aztec account, many people died not only from disease and enslavement but also from this issue.
What is hunger?
According to the image in Source 5, the environment in the mine can be described as...
What is dark, cold, and having poor air quality?
According to Source 6, the encomienda system put this group at the top of the social pyramid.
What are the Spaniards?
What is are the European colonizers?
What are mestizos?
The Columbian Exchange took place across this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Source 2 says that these people were responsible for scorching villages and enslaving Indigenous peoples.
Who are the European colonizers?
According to Source 4, miners had to carry firewood and supplies long distances because this natural resource did not exist around the mountain.
What is wood?
According to Source 6, the encomienda system forced Indigenous peoples to work for the benefit of these people.
What are the Spanish colonizers?
Who are the Spanish rulers and elites?
Source 1 describes how the Columbian Exchange shared animals used for food from Afro-Eurasia including.
What are cows and sheep?
Source 3 shows that the population of Mexico declined by this amount due to three epidemics.
What is 22-25 million people?
According to Sources 4 and 5, workers in the mines would be afraid of what happening to the cave/tunnels?
What is collapsing?
According to Source 6, the Spanish who took over the lands and ruled the encomiendas were called this.
What are encomenderos?
Who are the Indigenous and mestizo peoples?
The Columbian Exchange led to the transfer of this animal from Afro-Eurasia used for transportation.
What are horses?
Source 3 shows that this population decline from 22 million to 5 million over the course of this number of years.
What is 30 years?
In Source 4, Fray Domingo de Santa Tomás described the Potosí mines as this frightening metaphor.
What is "the mouth of hell"?
According to Source 6, the encomienda created a social and labor system that was similar to this European medieval system.
What is feudalism?
The Casta paintings were used to show this about the Spanish colonies in Central America.
What is their natural resources, abundance, and the exoticism of the cultures?