Colombian exchange

Colombian exchange

Multiple Choice

What is the New World?

• The America's

• Africa

• Europe

• Australia

• Asia

Multiple Select

Check all the items that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange.

• Plants

• Food

• diseases

• Animals

• Humans

Open Ended

Why did the population of native Americans drastically decline in the decades following European contact?

Slavery

•So many American Indians died that colonists looked elsewhere for laborers.

•Since African slaves had already developed immunity to European diseases, the colonists began to ship thousands of slaves from Africa to the Americas.

•Social order in the Americas consisted of Europeans as the upper class, and Africans, American Indians, and others of mixed race as the lower class.

•This social order was based on conquest and racism. Racism is the belief that some people are better than others because of racial traits, such as skin color.

•Slave labor continued in the Americas until the 1800s.  

Multiple Choice

How did the Columbian Exchange have an impact on Africa?

• Africans devastated by disease

• Positive, brought new goods to Africa

• Europeans needed a new workforce

Quick Thinking

Are the following items originally from the "Old World" (Afro-Eurasia) or the "New World" (The Americas)?

Multiple Choice

Horses

• old world

• new world

Multiple Choice

wheat

• old world

• new world

Multiple Choice

chocolate

• new world

• old world

Multiple Choice

Small pox

• old world

• new world

Multiple Choice

Pumpkin

• new world

• old world

Multiple Choice

Rats

• old world

• new world