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Columbian Exchange Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

What was the Columbian Exchange?

a)

the triangular trade

b)

an exchange of indentured servants and economic goods between the Old World and New World

c)

an exchange of culture, plants, livestock, people, and disease between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

d)

a way to create a menu of foods

2.

What foods moved from the Old World to the New World?

a)

potatoes, tomatoes, squash, corn, beans, avocados, and peanuts

b)

citrus fruits, peaches, pears, bananas, olives, onions, sugar, coffee

c)

cattle, sheep, pigs, horses

d)

smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough

3.

What foods moved from the New World to the Old World?

a)

potatoes, tomatoes, squash, corn, beans, avocados, and peanuts

b)

citrus fruits, peaches, pears, bananas, olives, onions, sugar, coffee

c)

cattle, sheep, pigs, horses

d)

smallpox, influenza, typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough

4.

Why were corn and potatoes the most important?

a)

Both were nutritious and inexpensive to grow.

b)

Both grew underground and were easy to grow.

c)

You could eat them quickly, so the bears wouldn't eat you.

d)

They digested slow and gave more energy.

5.

What was the death toll in Latin America during the Columbian Exchange?

a)

1 billion people died in the 1500s.

b)

2 million people died between 1521 and 1581.

c)

15 million people died in the 1500s.

d)

13 million people died between 1521 and 1581.

6.

How did the potato affect the population in Europe and Asia.

a)

People were more constipated.

b)

The worlds population grew because people didn't die of starvation.

c)

Europe created more chefs than any other nation in the world.

d)

The Chinese made potato rice.

7.

What sweets came from the Americas?

a)

ice cream and popsicles

b)

cakes and pies

c)

vanilla and cacao

d)

peanut butter and jelly

8.

What impact did the diseases have on Native Americans?

a)

They created vaccines.

b)

The Aztecs and Incas fell because of the death toll.

c)

There was conflict among the nations.

d)

It spawned the revolutionary war.

9.

Why is it called the Columbian Exchange?

a)

because Columbus started the voyages.

b)

because Columbus first found Colombia

c)

because there were children from columbine

d)

no one knows

10.

What was the importance of the drug quinine?

a)

it helped decrease cravings for tobacco

b)

it helped doctors create penicillin

c)

it was able to cure malaria

d)

it wasn't a helpful drug