Columbian Exchange

As native populations decreased in the Americas from sickness and overwork, Europeans looked for new sources of labor by enslaving the ____________.

• Africans
• Slavs

• Aztec

Which was traded from the Old World to the New World?

• horses and major diseases
• squash, pumpkins, and turkeys
• cocoa and horses
• cocoa and llamas

How did the introduction of cattle and sheep into the Americas affect the environment?

• They helped improve the grasslands which their feces

• They often wiped out the grasslands, turning them into wastelands

• They began the process of global warming

• They led to the emergence of forests

The global trading of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas begun after Columbus's first voyage is known as __________________.

• The Great Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange

• The New World Exchange

• The American Exchange

The introduction of new crops from the Americas caused populations to _____________ in the Europe, Africa, and Asia.

• increase

• decrease

• the stay the same

• none of the above

What were the main positive consequences of the Columbian Exchange?

• traveling by ship was really fun
• better looking people coming over from one place to the other
• disease, death, slavery
• healthier diet, new resources, good trading

Historians estimate that more than ______ of indigenous people died during the Colombian Exchange.

• 80%

• 90%

• 75%

• 40%

What was not exchanged during the Columbian Exchange?

• Humans

• Disease

• Plants

• Money