Transatlantic Encounters

What was the Colombian Exchange?

• The exchange of animals, goods, ideas, technology, and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• Spain's voyage with Columbus as the leader

• Columbus' new trading route after to the Americas

• The exchange of culture, goods, and people across the Atlantic and through Asia

The primary European disease that decimated the Indian population as well as playing havoc with the European settlers was

• polio

• influenza

• smallpox

• the Red Death

Excerpt from “The first letter of Christopher Columbus to the noble lord Raphael” by Columbus, Christopher.

“The inhabitants … in this island and in all of the others which I have seen … go always naked as they were born …. None of them are possess any iron, neither have they weapons, being unfamiliar with, and indeed unskillful to use them, not from deformity of body but because they lack courage and are full of fear.”

What does the letter by Columbus suggest about European feelings towards Native Americans?

• The natives were unable to communicate with Europeans.

• The natives were impressive in the society that they created.

• The natives were hostile and unfriendly.

• The natives were technologically backward and uncivilized.

 Columbus had embarked on his journey for all of the following reasons except

• to find gold
• to claim land
• to abandon European society
• to spread Christianity

The Treaty of Tordesillas, an agreement to divide the Western Hemisphere, was made between Spain and

• France
• Portugal
• England
• the Netherlands

The native people whom Columbus met first and who would later rebel against his rule were the  

• Hopi
• Pueblo
• Aztec
• Taino

Which country was Columbus SUPPOSED to land on?

• India

• Italy

• Spain

• Portugal

How did the Columbian Exchange result in the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

• Diseases wiped out Native American populations

• Europeans needed labor to plant crops in the New World

• Native Americans would rebel or run away from slave masters

• All of the above

____ and ____ were more effective than Native weaponry, assisting the Europeans greatly in conquest.

• Bows ; Arrows

• Guns ; Ammo

• Guns ; Cannons

• Sticks ; Stones

What is the BEST definition for colonization?

• when people move somewhere but return to their home country

• The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people

• when a society becomes multicultural

• when trade relationships are formed between countries