European Exploration

What country sponsored Christopher Columbus?

• Spain
• England
• Italy
• Portugal

What is one significance of the Columbian Exchange?

• It brought many new ways of life to the Old and New Worlds

• The plants brought to the Old World didn't survive there

• Many Native Americans would move to Europe for a better way of life

• Native Americans became very wealthy off the trade with Europeans

How were the Spanish conquistadors able to conquer the New World?

• They prayed for the Native Americans.
• They became friends and traded goods with the Native Americans.
• They used advanced weapons to take control of the Native Americans.
• They paid them gold to work building colonies for them.

The exchange of goods and people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas is the ________________?

• Cartaz system

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

This traveled from the New World to the Old World.

• Tobacco and corn

• Christianity

• Horses

• Smallpox

When Columbus arrived in the Americas, there was no one living there.

• True

• False

During the Columbian Exchange, which way did plants, animals, diseases, and people flow? 

• From New World to Old World only 

• From Old World to New World only 

• From both Old World to New World and New World to Old World (i.e., both directions)

• From both north to south and south to north

What do potatoes, corn, and gold have in common?  

• Native Americans transported them to the Old World 
• They all made countries of the Old World richer 
• They were all discovered by Columbus
• Europeans introduced all of them to the New World

Which of the following would have best prepared Native Americans for the challenges of the Columbian Exchange?

•  Access to sugarcane and other European crops 
• Immunity from smallpox and the flu 
• The ability to shape iron into cookware and guns 
• A native population of horses to be domesticated

Which continent benefitted most during the first 100 years of the Columbian Exchange?

• Asia
• Africa
• Europe
• North America