SS Quiz Columbian Exchange

What was the Columbian Exchange? Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question from the choices provided.

• a prisoner exchange between Cortés and the Aztecs

• a peace exchange between Columbus and the Taino

• an exchange of cultures and goods between Europe and Asia

• an exchange of cultures and goods across the Atlantic Ocean

Which is the best example of culture?

• European explorers used technology to sail greater distances.

• American Indians did not have immunity to diseases like smallpox.

• American Indians had oral traditions rather than written languages.

• European explorers killed, conquered, and enslaved American Indians.

Which had the greatest effect on American Indian populations?

• crops

• diseases

• horses

• plantations

What statement best supports the argument that the Age of Exploration and the Columbian exchange did more harm than good?

• European settlers formed plantations to grow sugar.

• Millions of American Indians died, and their cultures changed.

• Many of the brave sailors and explorers never returned home.

• Expeditions were expensive and cost more than they brought home.

Which is the best conclusion to draw about the Columbian Exchange?

• American Indians may have been exposed to a new culture, but much of it was forced on them.

• European cultures were enriched but at great expense to the economies of those European nations.

• European explorers and conquistadors improved the lives of American Indians by modernizing them.

• The Columbian Exchange helped American Indians and European colonists more than people in Europe.

What animal changed life for the American Indians?

• Pigs
• Chickens
• Horses
• Cows

What were the main negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange?

• many Native Americans died, diseases were spread, slavery began
• new foods and resources
• the Old World brought terrible music to the New World
• none - it was all good

What cause many Native Americans to die during the time of the Columbian Exchange?

• Diseases
• Spoiled Food
• Spoiled Meat
• War with Europeans

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

• Africans

• Spanish

• Portuguese

• Americans

The Columbian Exchange brought new things to Europe and the Americas. What things were new to Europe, and which were new to the Americas?

Groups:

(a) New to Europe

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(b) New to the Americas

• Diseases

• Potatoes

• Horses

• Corn