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Colombian Exchange Quizizz

Colombian Exchange Quizizz

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13 Slides • 53 Questions

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Disease

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The global trading of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas begun after Columbus's first voyage is known as __________________.

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The Great Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange

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The New World Exchange

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The American Exchange

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Europeans were not as affected by the diseases they brought to the Americas because they had _________________ .

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mercantilism

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epidemiology

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immunity

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colonization

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The introduction of new crops from the Americas caused populations to _____________ in the Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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increase

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decrease

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the stay the same

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none of the above

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What disease(s) did Europeans bring to the New World

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Small pox

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Measles

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Mumps

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All of the above

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What is an example(s) of ideas that were traded as part of the Columbian Exchange?

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Religions

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Political systems

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Languages

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All of the above

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Where did horses come from?

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New World

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Old World

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Where did potatoes come from?

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New World

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Old World

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Where did sugar come from?

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New World

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Old World

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Where did corn come from?

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New World

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Old World

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Where did tomatoes come from?

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New World

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Old World

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Where did pigs come from

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New World

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Old World

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Which group of people were brought to the New World as laborers to replace dying Native Americans.

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Serfs from Russia

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Enslaved people from West African

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Peasants from China

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None of the above

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Columbian Exchange

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Where did Columbus travel back and forth from?

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Europe and Africa

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Europe and America

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Europe and Asia

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Check all the items that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange.

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Plants

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Animals

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Food

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Humans

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diseases

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What is the New World?

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The America's

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Europe

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Africa

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Asia

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How would horses impact the new world?

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Make life easier

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Make life harder

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Which European disease had an overwhelming negative impact on Native Americans?

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measles

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influenza

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small pox

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typhoid

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What led to the use of labor from African slaves?

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population

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cash crops

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disease

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What was the ultimate conqueror of Native Americans?

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Natural Disaster

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Hernan Cortes

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Francisco Pizzaro

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European Disease

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How did the Columbian Exchange have an impact on Africa?

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Native Americans devastated by disease

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Europeans needed a new workforce

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Positive bringing new goods to Africa

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Africans devastated by disease

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The Columbian Exchange was _________________.

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The movement of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures.

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The movement of money from one country to another.

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The movement of people and culture to Columbia.

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The movement or exchange of currency from one country to another.

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Process of interaction and integration among various parts of the world through commercial and cultural exchange

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Globalization

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Exchange

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Interchanging

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Culturalization

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Referring to the nations and cultures of Europe’s Spain and Portugal

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Iberian

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Balkan

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Jutland

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Scandinavian

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The largest denomination of Christianity in the world to date

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Roman Catholicism

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Protestant

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Christianity

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Judaism

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Referring to the languages and cultural characteristics which evolved out of the Latin speaking Roman Empire

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Romance

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Balkan

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Germanic

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Greek

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Both Spain and Portugal were officially __________ kingdoms during the age of exploration and colonization

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Protestant

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Roman Catholic

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Germanic

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Christian

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Portuguese is the official language of __________ because Portugal colonized this area.

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Mexico

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Brazil

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Chile

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Cuba

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____________ is the main language in Latin America

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Spanish

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Portuguese

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English

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French

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The Columbian Exchange began with Christopher Columbus in __________.

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1542

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1492

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1462

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1502

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Spanish agricultural plantations throughout Latin America during the colonial period.

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Hacienda

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Plantation

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Casa

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Farm

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– Term referring to the native peoples or species of a given place

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Indigenous

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Immigrants

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Colonials

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Imports

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term used to describe the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration

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Old World

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Latin America

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New World

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Europe

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The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries

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Transatlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic Passage

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Atlantic Tradeway

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The Pacific Trade Route

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Which term is not used as another name for the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Triangular Trade

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The Columbian Exchange

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The Middle Passage

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The Atlantic Trade Route

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The main religion in Latin America brought over by the Spanish and Portuguese

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Catholicism

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Judaism

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Islam

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Buddhism

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Europe was also known as the __________.

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New World

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Old World

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This group of people were used as slaves in Latin America because of their strong immune systems

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Maya

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Incan

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Aztecs

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Africans

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Which best describes the best example of globalization in Latin America?

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Europeans bring disease only to Latin America

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Europeans bringing good to Europe, but none to Latin America

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Europeans bringing goods from Latin America to Europe and goods from Europe to Latin America

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Europeans bringing slaves to Latin America

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Which country settled most of Latin America with exception of Brazil?

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Portugal

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Spain

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France

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Italy

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This country brought Roman Catholicism and language to Brazil.

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Spain

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Portugal

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France

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Germany

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