WH.2.4

In the Chinese uplands, champa rice was grown using...

• Patty Farming

• The Three-Field system

• slave labor

• Terrace Farming

How did the introduction of bananas to East Africa by Indonesian sailors negatively affect the environment?

• Bananas required large areas of land to be cleared.

• Bananas replaced Yams, causing the food to go extinct.

• Cultural diffusion created the Swahili language.

• Bananas had no negative effect on the environment.

In the period 1200-1450, European desire for what good contributed to the growth of the African slave trade?

• Cotton

• Sugar

• Bananas

• Silk

The Little Ice Age and soil erosion caused by deforestation led to what in Europe?

• Famine and starvation.

• The spread of the Black Death.

• Regional conflicts over food.

• Colder temperatures caused a fur-trade boom in Russia.

Select all effects of the Black Death in Europe.

• The Roman Catholic Church gained power as people clung to religion during a time of disease.

• Power of the Roman Catholic Church declined.

• Serfs and their labor became more valuable, leading to a decline in Feudalism.

• Since so many people died, Feudalism increased.