Age of Exploration and Columbian Exchange

What motivated explorers and countries to explore the new world?

• Gold, God, and Gifts

• Gold, Glory, and Fame

• Gold, God, Glory

• Gold, Slavery, and Land

What was the Columbian Exchange named after?

• The demand for coffee.

• Christopher Columbus' routes (trips) to the Americas.

• The country of Columbia in South America.

• Christopher Columbus ships.

_____________: the trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and slaves from Africa to the Americas

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

• Three G's

_______________: the trip slaves were forced to take from Africa to the Americas. Conditions were horrible and many died of disease, starvation, and abuse.

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Mercantilism

The Columbian Exchange transported plants, animals, ___________, technologies, and people from one continent to another.

• water

• pigs

• diseases

• Mercantilism

In the Columbian Exchange goods were exchanged from the _________________________.

• North to South

• Spain to England

• Sea to Sea

• Old World to New World

Choose the answer that fits in both blanks:

The Columbian Exchange improved the diets and lifespans of  _________________.

________________ economies also improved through trade.

• Indigenous People of the Americas

• Indians

• Canadians

• Europeans

Choose the term that fits in both blanks:

European ___________ had the largest impact on Native Americans. _____________ like smallpox and influenza killed millions of Native Americans.

• foods

• religion

• technology

• diseases

 Historians estimate that diseases killed between 50% and _____% of natives.

• 90%

• 75%

• 50%

• 100%

As Europeans took control of the Indigenous People's land, they needed labor for the cash crops grown in the Americas. One of the negative results of the need for labor was the development of _____________.

• crops

• slavery

• starvation

• diseases