Impact of the Colombian Exchange 1.1 & 1.2

As a result of the Colombian Exchange, the New World gained... (LT 1.1)

• a significant new source of staple food crops

  
  

• advanced medical techniques that extended the life-span of Native Americans

  
  

• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers

  
  

• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden

  
  

European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because... (LT 1.1)

• little medical aid was available so far from European urban centers

  
  

• the Native Americans had no natural resistance to these diseases

  
  

• the European conquerors deliberately accelerated the spread of the most deadly strains

  
  

• the vast devastation of warfare with the Europeans left few to care for the sick

  
  

In the view of the encomienda system, Native Americans were seen primarily as... (LT 1.2)

• a source of labor

  
  

• a focus of evangelization

  
  

• a group to be protected

  
  

  outcasts to be excluded from Spanish settlement

  
  

What aspect of Spanish colonization did missionary Bartolome de Las Casas famously protest? (LT 1.2)

• the refusal of explorers to tithe on the wealth they discovered

  
  

• the treatment of Native Americans as subhuman and expendable

  
  

• the lack of missionary zeal among the conquistadors

  
  

• the focus of the Spanish Crown on Latin America while neglecting the Reconquista at home

  
  

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained...

• a significant new source of staple food crops
• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers
• advanced medical techniques that extended the life-span of Native Americans
• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden