Exploration & Columbian Exchange

•Where did Corn (maize) come from?

• Old World
• New World

•Where did horses come from?

• Old World
• New World

The Old world refers to the continents of 

• North and South America 
• Australia
• Europe, Africa and Asia
• Antarctica

The New World refers to 

• Europe and Africa
• North and South America
• Australia and Antarctica
• Asia

•Where did potatoes & sweet potatoes come from?

• Old World
• New World

How did diseases impact the New World?

• They didn't
• They wiped out 75-90% of the Europeans
• They wiped out 75-90% of the indigenous people
• They helped the natives beat the Spanish

TRUE OR FALSE: Europeans found plants and animals they had never seen before. 

• TRUE
• FALSE

Epidemic is __________

• a word the Native Americans used to describe the Europeans
• a joining of cultures
• an outbreak of disease that spreads quickly and affects many people 

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

• Africans
• Spanish
• Portuguese

Europeans turned to African slaves after American Indians died off from diseases like small pox, measles, and malaria.

• True
• False