Columbian Exchange (Age of Exploration)

Question 1

Why did diseases spread so rapidly in the Americas?

Answer 1

No immunity

Question 2

What was the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 2

Global transfer and introduction of new foods/animals/plants/diseases during the Americas colonization

Question 3

What was the New World?

Answer 3

The Americas (South/North America)

Question 4

What was the Old World?

Answer 4

African/Eurasian Continent

Question 5

What did Europe (some from Asia) bring to the Americas?

Answer 5

Small pox, typhus, mumps, measles, malaria, influenza
horses, sheep, cattle, pigs, chickens
bananas, coffee, wheat, black-eyed peas, yams
wheat, rice, barley, oats

Question 6

What did the Americas bring to Europe?

Answer 6

deadly potato fungus
turkeys
potatoes, corn, peanuts, tobacco, pineapple, cocoa, tomatoes

Question 7

What did the Arawak people believe horses were?

Answer 7

Giant man-eating dogs

Question 8

Where did Columbus land?

Answer 8

The Americas (North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean)

Question 9

How did the Arawak people use horses?

Answer 9

For buffalo hunting

Question 10

What were some impacts of the Columbian Exchange?

Answer 10

• Native Americans died from diseases
• introduction of new diseases and plants on both sides
• introduction of new animals in the New World