Columbian Exchange

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• A trade system started by Amerigo Vespucci.

• The exchange of goods, people, animals, and diseases between the Old World and New World.

• The exchange of money between Columbus and the indigenous people in America.

Who was responsible for the Columbian Exchange?

• The King and Queen of Spain

• Ponce de Leon

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

How were people in the New World affected by the Columbian Exchange?

• They were happier

• They developed vaccines to cure diseases

• They became friends with the natives

• They died from diseases

What is the New World?

• The Americas

• Africa, Europe, and Asia

• Asia

• Africa and the Americas

What is the Old World?

• The Americas

• Africa, Europe, and Asia

• Asia and Europe

• Africa and the Americas?

Which of the following goods came from the old world?

• pumpkin and peppers

• turkey and sweet potatoes

• corn and tobacco

• horses and diseases

Which of the following goods came from the New World?

• tobacco and pumpkins

• diseases and honeybees

• coffee beans and bananas

• grains and onions

•Where did Corn (maize) come from?

• Old World
• New World

•Where did horses come from?

• Old World
• New World

•Where did small pox, measles, & typhus come from?

• Old World
• New World