Studies Weekly The Columbian Exchange: Part One

What needed to be brought to America?

• money

• food

• gold

• interpreters

Why is America considered the breadbasket of the world?

• because Americans eat the most bread of any country

• because Americans grow the most grains that make bread

• because America has the most bread themed restaurants in the world

• because America imports the most bread of any country in the world

How did farm animals make surviving easier for people in the New World?

• you didn't have to be an excellent hunter to eat meat

• you could have company on a lonely farm

• you could trade farm animals for meat like deer and elk

• you could use farm animals to attract larger game like buffalo