Studies Weekly: Week 10: Consequences of Contact

How did the ingenious people of the Americas cleverly meet their wants and needs? Discover the answer in Article 1!

• By skillfully using resources from the land around them through gathering, hunting, and cultivating delicious crops like beans and squash

• By popping into a store around the corner to buy all their food

• By inventing the resources they needed right out of the environment around them

• All of the above are correct

Ready for a time-travel challenge? Guess what was swapped in the grand Columbian Exchange! (Hint: It's not just your usual trade items.)

• Exotic flowers, intriguing goods, delicious chocolate, and... Barbie Dolls?

• Assorted goods, adventurous people, lush plants, and... sand?

• A mix of goods, plants, People, animals, and sneaky diseases

• Plants, animals, beautiful flowers, and sweet candy

What did the Europeans and the people of the Americas have in common? Article 1- state at least two similarities (how they are the same).

Ready for a time-travel challenge? Let's zoom back and explore the Columbian Exchange! Which continents were part of this massive historical swap meet? (Hint: Article 3)

• The Americas, Russia, Rialto, and Spain

• Europe, Asia, and Africa

• Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, California

What is the difference between a privateer and a pirate? (Article 4)

What was the effect of pirates or privateers attacking or plundering private ships or ships owned by countries? (Article 4)

What was the result of the high demand on sugar? (Article 5, Demand in Europe, paragraph 2)

Guess which product had Europeans opening their wallets wide? Hint: It's sweet! (Article 5 & 7)

• potatoes

• bananas

• oranges

• takis

• sugar

What place did sugarcane grow well in? (Article 7: Sugar Production and the Slave Trade)

How did the Native Americans and the Africans get enslaved? (Articles 7 & 8)