1.6 Cultural Exchange Flashcards
The Columbian Exchange was a result of…
Cultural Exchange (the meeting of people of different cultures)
______ _____ were not native to the Americas.
Orange Trees
Native American Farmers began to rely on ______ and ______
Horses and Cattle
European Farmers started growing ____ and ________
Corn nad Tomatoes
______ were a significant exchange to the Plains Indians because the ______ made it easier for the Plains Indians to travel in search of buffalo.
Horses
_____ and ________ dominated the colonization in South America.
Spain and Portugal
The Spanish and Portuguese argued over…
Land Claims
The ______ of ___________ was created in 1494 to preserve peace between Spain and Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
European countries competed to control territory in the ___ ____ to gain access to new supplies and materials.
New World
Spanish plantation owners entered the transatlantic slave trade because millions of Native Americans died of ______ and they couldn’t do the work on the plantations.
Smallpox
The smallpox epidemic decreased worker productivity because millions of Native Americans were killed during the _________________.
Columbian Exchange
Early European settlers faced a shortage in labor, there wasn’t enough Native Americans to do the work, so the Europeans entered the _________________.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
English settlers used _________ ___________ as a cheap source of labor.
Indentured Servants
Indentured servants were the first Africans to arrive in the English colonies of ________________.
North America
Indentured servitude began to solve the ______________ in North America.
labor shortages
