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).

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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)

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

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

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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)

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