Triangle Trade

What happened to Native Populations?

• They were very high populations due to advanced European food.

• The Europeans intentionally killed millions with biological warfare.

• Native deaths were high due to low immunity to disease.

• They suffered from the plague.

What is the triangular trade?

• Trade route brining silk from Asia to Europe.

• Exchange of diseases, crops, animals between the New and Old world.

• Brought Natives to the New World to work

• Trade connecting three continents trading guns, goods, slaves.

Who did Europeans seek for labor after Natives died from European diseases?

• Slaves brought through the Middle Passage from Africa.

• New machines, such as tractors to provide labor.

• Natives brought to the New World

• Europeans brought through the Middle Passage from Europe.

Which good was most important to Africans, who were in intense competition and war?

• Guns

• Manufactured goods

• Rum

• None of it was helpful

What labor intensive crops led to slavery increasing?

• Corn, beans and squash

• Carrots, beans, peas

• Sugar cane, tobacco and cotton

• Corn, tobacco, flax

What two items made sea journeys possible for exploration? choose two

• clocks, astrolabes and the magnetic compass

• Wireless headphone, cell phones, and gps

• ships called caravels, that were sturdier and faster

• Sturdy ships called cutters that were easy to sail

What was the Age of exploration?

• When hand tools were replaced with machines.

• Native Americans were put on reservations in the U.S.

• Time when iron tools developed

• Europeans explored land overseas

Which is NOT true about exploration?

• Portugal and Spain competed in a rivalry to find new land.

• Ferdinand and Isabella argued over funding Christopher Columbus.

• English, French and Dutch competed for new land and power.

• The Spanish created colonies in America and the Caribbean.