The Columbian Exchange and its Impact

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• A widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas between the Old World and the New World

• A trading network that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• A theory that a country gains power by building up its wealth

• A voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and Americas to be sold into slavery

Following _________ and other Europeans’ exploration of the Americas, a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, disease, and ideas began between the two hemispheres. 

The Columbian exchange had an impact on economics. It ______ trade.

• Increased

• Decreased

Europeans Set up Colonies in the following countries?

• Haiti

• Antilles

• South America

• All of the Above

The New World consisted of Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia

• True

• False

The lowest class; consisted of slaves and tenant farmers

• African Americans

• Europeans

• Native Americans

• Mulattos

What was the largest class in the Spanish colonies in terms of ethnic background?

• Peninsulares

• Criollos

• Mestizos

• Mulattos

The Triangular Trade was a _____ _______ trading network.

• Trans Atlantic

• Trans Pacific

• Transaction

• Trans Union

• Over time, new crops became staples of European ____________________

• Recipes

• Diets

• Cuisine

• Foods

Before the Columbian Exchange, the _____ ______ did not have animals such as Horses, Pigs, etc.