Global Studies

What trade route was taken by Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean?

Europeans traveled to Africa to get slaves, brought the slaves to their colonies in the Americas, and then returned to Europe with goods from the Americas.

• silk road

• triangular trade

• transatlantic

• amber road

What term is used to describe the exchange of people, plants, animals, ideas and technology between the “Old World” (Europe) and the “New World” (North and South America) that took place as a result of exploration and colonization?

• columbian exchange

• cultural exchange

• market exchange

• transatlantic trade

What caused the change from producing goods by hand to producing goods with machines in factories?

• French Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• American Revolution

• Civil War

This was the economic system that was used during the Industrial Revolution (and that is still used in most of the world today). It was based on the following ideas

• Communism

• Market Economy

• Socialism

• Laissez Faire Capitalism

About 1 million Irish people died of famine (starvation) when the ________ crop failed to grow.

• onion

• carrot

• potato

• squash