Review World Cultures 6 Weeks

What are two economic activities that the Europeans began in Central America as a result of the Columbian Exchange

• raising children as a family

• cattle ranching and clearing rainforests to grow crops

• selling fruits in a market

• opening a supermarket

What is the best definition of the Columbian Exchange

• The exchange of Columbus for plants, animals and diseases

• Plants, animals and diseases that were exchanged between the continents as a result of the European contact with America

• Diseases that were spread because of Columbus's exchange with the Native Indians

• The changes that the Europeans made in our plants, animals and diseases

How did Spanish/European colonization influence Central American culture?

• Christianity and the Spanish language were introduced into the region

• Bananas and coffee could now be grown in Central America

• People began to exchange food with the Europeans

• Slaves began to migrate to the Americas from Africa

What is one way that European colonists in South America changed the character of the region?

• Religion was the only change

• There were new foods for everyone

• The religion and language of the region changed

• Native Indians learned only the Spanish language

A body of water that creates borders in both the United States and Mexico

• Bering Strait

• Gulf of California

• Hudson Bay

• Gulf of Mexico

How has migration from Mexico and Central America affected the cultural character of the United States?

• Latino population has been growing continuously

• Restaurants featuring Mexican food have become more common in the United States

• English is taught as a second language in schools

• Catholicism is the largest religion followed in the United States

Cutting down rainforests to clear land for farming is an example of:

• deforestation

• extracting natural resources

• modifying the physical environment

• illegal logging

How did Europeans solve the problem of need of workers for the sugar plantations?

• imported slaves from Africa

• enslaved the Native Indians from America

• began a paid workforce

• they just hired new ones

Technology from the 1400s that came from China and enabled Columbus to travel to America

• railroad

• caravel ship

• automobile

• boats and canoes

One of the negative effects of the Columbian exchange was the introduction of:

• Spanish as a language

• Slavery into Latin America

• Christianity as a religion

• European exploration of America