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100
Name one of the most important foods today from the Old World.
Rice, Wheat, Sugar.
100
What did the Native Americans used as a ranged weapon?
Bows and arrows.
100
Who was more impacted by diseases: Europeans or Native Americans?
Native Americans.
100
What region brought slaves to the West Indies?
Africa.
100
Why did population increase worldwide?
The introduction of new foods.
200
Name one of the most important foods from the New World today.
Maize, potatoes, cassava, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
200
What items made hunting easier for the Natives?
Guns and metal knives.
200
What is one of the diseases that was brought from the Old World to the New World?
Smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, influenza, chicken pox.
200
What region brought slaves to North America?
West Indies.
200
What was created due to the high demand for sugar in the Caribbean's?
The slave trade.
300
Which animal was the most impactful in the Americas?
Horses
300
What allowed the Natives to make treaties with the Europeans?
The European Language.
300
What is one of the diseases that went from the New World to the Old World?
Syphilis, polio, hepatitis, encephalitis.
300
What region did these items come from? Whale oil, lumber, furs, rice, silk, indigo, tobacco
North America.
300
What was the main source of economic growth in this time period?
Trading.
400
What allows for exponential expansion of population and the improvement of caloric and nutritional consumption?
The increase of farmable land.
400
What made farming easier for the Americas? (name one)
Wheeled cart, axe, plow.
400
What is the deadliest disease that went from the Old World to the New World?
Smallpox.
400
What region, Europe/Africa or the Americas, brought smallpox to the other?
Europe/Africa.
400
What is the benefit of the world becoming more urban?
Interconnections and mingling between cultures.
500
What animals were brought to the Americas by the Europeans?(Name two)
Horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, owls, and donkeys.
500
What is the type of the gun that was brought from the Old World?
Musket.
500
What is the percent of Native Americans that died from diseases?
90-95%.
500
What region did whooping cough come from?
Europe, Africa, and Asia.
500
Why is it important that the increase supply of food brought the price of the food down?
The poor had the money to buy foods that they could not before.