Columbian Exchange

Why did people from Europe set out to explore new routes to Asia?

• Because the Renaissance made people wealthy

• Because Europeans wanted revenge on the Mongols

• Because the Ottomans shut down the Silk Road

• Because Europeans had overpopulated their area

Match the explorers to their country of origin (or which country funded their journey)

• England

• Magellan, de Gama, Diaz

• France

• Cabot, Drake, Hudson

• Portugal

• Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes

• Spain

• Cartier, La Salle, Champlain

The transfer of plants, animals, gold, African slaves and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres is known as the

• Age of Exploration

• Columbian Exchange

• Old World vs New World

• Protestant Reformation

Why did so many European countries compete to claim new lands?

Match the items exchanged in the Columbian Exchange

Groups:

(a) FROM Europe

,

(b) FROM the Americas

• Tobacco

• Sugar cane

• African slaves

• Corn, pumpkins

• Tomatoes, peppers

• Vanilla

• Disease

• Citrus fruits

• Wheat, rice, oats

• Cattle, sheep, pigs, horses

• Weapons/guns

• Turkey

• Coffee*

Draw 2 items that Europeans brought to the New World.

Draw 2 items the Americas gave to the Old World (Europe/Asia/Africa)

Since cheap labor was sought out by Europeans after Feudalism had ended, many ____ were taken as slaves by the Portuguese, Spanish, English and French.

• Chinese

• Portuguese

• Native Americans

• Africans

True or False: Africans had held other Africans in "slavery" (or indentured servitude) due to them having debts or being taken as prisoners of war.

• True

• False

The dangerous journey Africans were taken on by Europeans colonizing the New World, often lasting 2-3 months in crowded, unsanitary conditions was called

• The Northwest Passage

• The Middle Passage

• The American journey

• Latin American Passage