Columbian Exchange

Where did Columbus travel back and forth from?

• Europe and Africa

• Europe and America

• Europe and Asia

Check all the items that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange.

• Plants

• Animals

• Food

• Humans

• diseases

What is referred to as the New World?

• The Americas

• Europe

• Africa

• Asia

How did the Columbian Exchange have an impact on Africa?

• Native Americans devastated by disease

• Europeans needed a new workforce

• Positive bringing new goods to Africa

• Africans devastated by disease

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• The exchange of plants, animals, humans, bacteria, and technology between Africa and Europe

• The exchange of plants, animals, humans, bacteria, and technology between Africa and Asia

• The exchange of plants, animals, humans, bacteria, and technology between the Old World and the New World

Europeans brought with them the following diseases

• Smallpox, viruela, Covid, mumps

• Smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, chicken pox and typhus

• The plague, also known as the Black Death

Around how many people as result of the European-brought diseases?

• 90 percent of the population

• 24 million people

• All of the above

• None of the above

Why did Europeans started bringing slaves from Africa?

• Because they needed labor and Native Americans had died

• Because they needed labor and Africans wanted to work

• Because sugar was labor intensive and they needed workers

• Both A and C

Around how many African slaves did Europeans bring to the Americas by 1619?

• About 10 million

• About a million

• About 100,000

Who benefited the most from the Columbian Exchange?

• Europeans

• African slaves

• Native Americans