Columbian Exchange Vocabulary

Question 1

Columbian Exchange

Answer 1

Vast global exchange that included people, plants, animals, technology, and disease. Began with Columbus.

Question 2

Conquistador

Answer 2

Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500’s and 1600’s

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver

Question 4

Capitalism

Answer 4

economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit.

Question 5

Small Pox

Answer 5

Came from Columbian Exchange and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves.

Question 6

Middle Passage

Answer 6

When Africans were packed onto ships and sold. Named “floating coffins”.

Question 7

Old World

Answer 7

Belonging to or associated with former times. Part of world known before discovery of Americas, specifically Europe.

Question 8

New World

Answer 8

Western Hemisphere. Discovery of Americas.

Question 9

Slave

Answer 9

A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. Work excessively hard.

Question 10

Indentured Servant

Answer 10

Form of debt bondage, esp. in early American colonies used for poor teens.

Question 11

Christopher Columbus

Answer 11

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in service of Spain while looking for a route to China.

Question 12

Hernan Cortez

Answer 12

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.

Question 13

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 13

Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incans in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima.

Question 14

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 14

June 7, 1494, divided land outside of Europe between Portugal and Spain.