Ch2 The Columbian Exchange Flashcards
What are 5 facets that emerged as a result of the Columbian exchange?
animals people metals disease crops
2 things about animals
domesticated animals such as goats, sheep, and pigs invaded native American cornfields
Indians began hunting for Buffalo on horseback
Plain Indians
highly mobile, nomadic hunter society
2 ways in which horses were used
to gain control over neighbors and eventually dominate western territory
Disease
reduced the population by 90%
smallpox was the number one killer
Jamsetown
the first permanent English colony established in 1607, saved by tobacco
what did farming do
crops such as corn and potatoes increased the population
Sugar from the East Indies led to what
slavery in the new world
what emerged in the 16th century amongst people?
a caste system: an intermixing between Indians, Spanish and africans
Creoles and Peninsulares
people of Spanish and Portuguese original, the elite
made up 1-2% of the population
What led to the decline of Spain as a world power?
The new world had an abundance of gold and silver which the Spanish spent on wars regarding religion
