16.3 Video Question Quiz

What happened within a few hundred years of Europeans laying claim of the Americas?

• Increased trade with Asia
• Establishment of democratic governments
• Mass migration of Europeans to Africa
• The Native American population was wiped out

What do historians call the centuries-long swapping of cultures, ideas, plants, and animals?

• Globalization Exchange
• Cultural Diffusion
• Transatlantic Trade
• Columbian Exchange

How were the Europeans able to take over and rule the natives so quickly?

• Diseases

• Religious conversion
• Cultural assimilation
• Superior numbers of soldiers

Why was the population of Africa and Europe expanding at the same time that the Native Americans’ population was dropping?

• Europe's population grew because of increased migration from Asia.
• Native Americans thrived due to better agricultural practices.
• Africa and Europe had fewer resources leading to population decline.
• They were introduced to new healthy foods

Not all exports to the New World were goods or foods. Some exports were ideas. The most important one was what?

• monarchy
• feudalism
• religion

• socialism

Other than health problems, what was the downside to the sugar trade?

• Started the slave trade

• Improved agricultural practices
• Lower prices for consumers
• Increased trade with Europe

Although there are many negative effects that came from the Columbian exchange, there are also many positive effects, too. What is the biggest positive that came from it?

• Spread of diseases leading to population decline.
• Increased conflict between indigenous peoples and Europeans.
• It connected the two hemispheres together through trade.

• Destruction of local ecosystems due to invasive species.

When talking about mercantilism, which of the following is not one of Europe’s “Big 3” countries?

• Spain
• France
• Italy
• England

When countries claimed a territory, they would establish a _______ that would become a new market for the countries to sell things too.

• protectorate
• dependency
• outpost
• colony

The resources of the colony are sent back to Europe and are referred to as raw __________.

• goods
• products
• materials
• supplies