Age of Exploration

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What did the author mean by: “So it was we lost our lands to the strangers from the sky. We gave our souls to their gods. We took their speech into our mouths, forgetting our own.” -Encounter, Jane Yolen

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The Indigenous people began to lose their culture/way-of-life to the European explorer culture/way-of-life.

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Why was there a need for the rise of slavery in the American colonies?

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There was a demand for laborers to grow the New World cash crops.

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Which of the following was an effect colonialism had on indigenous people?

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The population of indigenous people was reduced due to disease.

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Besides slavery, what was one reason for conflict between the Europeans and the indigenous people?

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European missionaries were trying to convert the indigenous people to Christianity

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Which of the following was an effect of colonialism on the continent of Africa?

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The Transatlantic slave trade impaired Africa’s potential to develop economically.

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The death of indigenous labor force led to what agricultural practice in the new world?

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Importation of slave labor from Africa

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What is the Columbian exchange?

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An exchange of ideas, animals, plants, and disease

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What disease(s) did not have an impact on the New World? Options: Smallpox, Measles, Influenza, Chicken Pox

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Chicken Pox

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What animal from the old world changed the Native American living on the Great Plains way of life? Options: Turkey, Horse, Ducks, Alpaca

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Horse

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What food crop led to population growth and eventually to a famine in the Old World? Options: Corn, Pumpkins, Potatoes, Beans

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Potatoes