Intro US History 2023

The Columbian Exchange was _________________.

• The movement of peoples, agricultural commodities, diseases, and cultures.

• The movement of money from one country to another.

• The movement of people and culture to Columbia.

• The movement or exchange of currency from one country to another.

The Columbian Exchange began with Christopher Columbus in __________.

• 1542

• 1492

• 1462

• 1502

– Term referring to the native peoples or species of a given place

• Indigenous

• Immigrants

• Colonials

• Imports

term used to describe the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration

• Old World

• Latin America

• New World

• Europe

The enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• The Atlantic Passage

• Atlantic Tradeway

• The Pacific Trade Route

What two countries led exploration in the Americas?

• England and Germany

• Spain and Portugal

• France and Italy

The action of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

• traverse

• Silk Road

• colonization

• circumnavigate

Where did Spanish explorers mostly sail?

• Asia

• Americas

• England

• India

His trip was funded by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernan Cortes

• Marco Polo

• gunpowder

• chronometer

• astrolabe

• compass