Colombian Exchange and Triangle Trade

How did cash crops like sugar can lead to the slave trade?

• Africans were the only one that knew how to grow sugar cane.
• Slaves were needed to work on the big haciendas (plantations) in Latin America.
• The slave ships were made from sugar cane.
• Sugar cane was the currency used to buy slaves.

Which of the following is an effect of the Colombian Exchange?

• New crops and animals were shipped across the Pacific Ocean.
• The languages of Latin America began to be spoken throughout Europe.
• Many people living in Latin America speak Spanish or Portuguese today.
• Europeans adopted indigenous (native) religious rituals, such as human sacrifice, into their everyday lives.

Spain colonized many countries in Latin America.  How is Spain's influence still seen in these colonies today?

• Most of the people in these countries are Roman Catholic.
• Most of these countries have a strong democratic tradition.
• No Native American countries or traditions have survived.
• The King of Spain is the head of state in most of these countries today.

Why do people living in Brazil speak Portuguese today?

• It is still ruled by the monarch of Portugal.
• That is the language that the indigenous (native) people of the Amazon have always spoken.
• It is because Brazil used to be a Portuguese colony.
• Portuguese was the main language spoken by the slaves that were brought to Brazil during the slave trade.

Why did Europeans start bringing slaves from Africa?

• They were the only ones that could grow sugarcane.
• The indigenous slaves had all died from disease and warfare.
• African slaves could not catch small pox.
• Europeans did not use slaves from Africa.

What is another term that used to describe the slave trade between Europe, the America and Africa?

• Triangle Trade
• Globalization
• Hacienda
• Colombian Exchange

What term refers to the exchange of people, animals, plants, culture and disease between the Eastern and Western hemisphere?

• Triangle Trade

• Colombian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave trade

• NAFTA

Most of Latin America was colonized by people living in what region of Europe based on the information in this map?

• Urals
• Alps
• Rhine River
• Iberian Peninsula