Unit 1: Columbian Exchange Review

What is the Columbian Exchange?

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

• The migration of American Indian tribes to Europe

• The spread of diseases from the Old World to the New World

• The exchange of goods between Europe and Asia

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

• Exchange
• Epidemic
• Virus

• Culture

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

• Led to the deaths of millions of members of Indigenous tribes

• Improved their immunity to diseases

• Had no impact on their population

• Caused them to migrate to Europe

Which area was considered the "Old World"

• Europe, Asia, Africa ("Afroeurasia")

• The Americas (North, South, Central, & The Caribbean)

• The Pacific

• Oceania, Africa, Europe

Which of the following was a benefit (good outcome) of the Columbian Exchange?

• Native populations increased in the Americas

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

• People discovered gold in Columbian mountain ranges

What was something bad that came from the Columbian Exchange?

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

• Overall global nutrition decreased due to improper farming practices.

• America became an absolute monarchy.

• Education levels decreased globally.

how did the Columbian Exchange affect society?

• increased the population, improved education, but also negatively impacted Indigenous populations & increased slavery

• It shifted the global economic system away from capitalism and towards feudalism

• it killed about 80% of the world population due to smallpox epidemics

• it helped America become a global superpower

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

• True
• False

Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas in this year.

• 1592
• 1492
• 1942
• 1812

Wheat, grapes, bananas, sugar cane, cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, and enslaved Africans went from the ​ (a)   to the ​ (b)   .

• Old World
• New World