The Columbian Exchange

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What two people groups were most negatively affected by the Columbian Exchange?

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Native Americans & Africans

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Who sailed from Spain and landed in the Bahamas in 1492?

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Christopher Columbus

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Where did Columbus mistakenly think he landed?

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Indies of Asia

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Which of these items did the Europeans bring to the New World? Options: potatoes, corn, peanuts, horses

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horses

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What were 2 negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?

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disease and slavery killed millions

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What group of people suffered the most during the Columbian Exchange? Options: Animals, Explorers, Native Americans, Europeans

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Native Americans

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Diseases from the Old World animals included measles, yellow fever, chicken pox, and _____?

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Smallpox

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Due to the new goods that were brought over, the Columbian Exchange also led to this terrible practice.

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Slave trade

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The Columbian Exchange was a movement of _______ between the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

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all of the above

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As native populations decreased in the Americas from sickness and overwork, Europeans looked for new sources of labor by enslaving the ____________.

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Africans