Columbian Exchange & Consequences Review

The Columbian Exchange has led to

• Less biological diversity

• Greater biological diversity

What was the primary response of Caribbean Islanders or Native Americans or Amerindians to Old World diseases?

• Death

• They were unphased by Old World diseases

• A long period of incapacitation followed by the long recovery.

• Slight aches and pains followed by a quick recovery.

Which of the following best describes the estimate of Natives killed by disease?

• 50 - 90%

• 10 - 20%

• 10 - 50%

• 20 - 70%

Though the population of the new world was raged by multiple new world diseases at once which disease is often seen as the biggest killer?

• Smallpox

• Chickenpox

• Measles

• Typhus

Which of the following were effects of diseases in the new world?

• 50-90% of the native population died.

• It kicked off a series of succession struggles after native leaders died of it.

• It created a cycle of food shortages.

• It weakened the armies of native peoples.

What disease is one example of a new world disease affecting the old world?

• syphilis

• smallpox

• tythpus

• polio

Which new world crop has done extensive damage across the world? Notably, led to more American deaths than the actual fighting in WWII?

• Tobacco

• Heroine

• Peyote

• Marijuana

Which were old-world animals that caught on in the new world?

• Cows

• Pigs

• Horses

• Llamas

The largest beast of burden in the Americas domesticated by the natives prior to Columbus was?

• Buffalo

• Ox

• Horses

• Llamas

The old world animal radically changed the lives of plains Indians.

• Buffalo

• Ox

• Horses

• Llamas