Unit 1: Columbian Exchange Review

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What is the Columbian Exchange?

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The transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the European colonization of the Americas

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What impact did the spread of diseases from the Old World have on the American Indian tribes?

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Led to the deaths of millions of members of Indigenous tribes

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Impact of the Columbian Exchange on the native population of the Americas?

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Significant decrease

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Who made the Old World? Options: Europe, Asia, Africa; Spain, Antarctica, Hawaii; Alaska, Japan, Saudi Arabia; Oceania, Africa, Europe.

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Europe, Asia, Africa

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Benefit of the Columbian Exchange?

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It improved people's diets, and health which increased the world population

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What was something bad that came from the Columbian Exchange?

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diseases were spread between continents which resulted in massive outbreaks among some civilizations.

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How did the Columbian Exchange affect society?

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Increased the population, improved education, but also negatively impacted Native Americans through disease and the invasion from Europeans.

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An __________ is an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and effects many people. This happened when the Europeans settled in the Americas.

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Epidemic

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Animal brought from Europe that was new to the Americas and helped Native Americans search, hunt food, and fight off enemies. Options: Pigs, Horses, Llamas, Cows

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Horses

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True or False? Many Europeans died from deadly diseases that the Native Americans exposed to them.

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False