Question 4

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

God, gold, and glory motivated European nations to explore and create colonies in the New World
Europe’s elite had an interest in overseas expansion
Merchant community saw opportunity for profit
Church saw opportunity for widespread conversion
Impoverished nobles sought fame and fortune

Question 2

Thesis

Answer 2

The Columbian Exchange facilitated the growth of America as a global power by introducing various crops and animals into the environment, encouraging the spread of American goods, and establishing a vast communication network.

Question 3

Evidence 1

Answer 3

Wheat, rice, sugarcane, grapes, and many garden vegetables and fruits, as well as weeds, took hold in the Americas
horses, pigs, cattle, goats, sheep —were new to the Americas and prospered in an environment largely free of natural predators
= domesticated animals made the ranching economies and cowboy cultures of both North and South America possible
Horses also transformed Native American societies = farming peoples such as the Pawnee abandoned their fields to hunt bison from horseback

Question 4

Evidence 2

Answer 4

American crops like corn and potatoes spread → increase in exports
Potatoes in Ireland = helped fix starvation
In China, corn, peanuts, and especially sweet potatoes supplemented the traditional rice and wheat to sustain China’s modern population explosion.
In Africa, Corn = cheap food for transatlantic travels as slaves

Question 5

Evidence 3

Answer 5

British, French, and Dutch turned their Caribbean territories into sugar plantations
Transatlantic slave trade = sugar and cotton trade → need for labor
Europeans turned to the Africans because Natives /fled
Sugar and cotton was distributed abroad
Created a long term connection between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.