The Columbian Exchange

I am an Italian sailor, who sailed for Spain and I looked for a faster water route to Asia.

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

• Henry Hudson

What book inspired Columbus?

• The travels of Marco Polo

• The travels of Christopher Columbus

• The travels of the Titanic

• The travels of the Queen

Why did Columbus call the Taino natives Indians?

• Because they asked him to

• Because Columbus thought he had landed in India

• Because he liked the name Indians.

• Because he did not understand what they were trying to say.

When did Columbus make his first voyage to the New World?

• 1492 AD

• 1492 BC

• 1606 AD

• 1606 BC

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Christopher Columbus represented the country of Spain on a voyage trying to find ______________________.

• the fastest and safest way to get to China.

• Indians

• food

• the fastest and safest way to get to Japan.

Which continents are part of the New World?

• Europe, Asia, Africa
• North America & South America
• Australia & Antarctica
• the United States and Russia

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Which continents are part of the Old World?

• Europe, Africa, Asia
• North America & South America
• Australia & Antarctica
• the United States & Russia

Coffee comes from

• The Old World (Europe/Asia)

• The New World (The Americas)

Without this key ingredient from the NEW WORLD, Pizza may never have been invented in the OLD WORLD [Europe].

• Tomatoes

• Milk for cheese

• Wheat for bread

Bananas came from...

• The Old World

• The New World