The Great Dying, Little Ice Age, and the Columbian Exhange

Question 1

Define Columbian Exchange

Answer 1

term created by Alfred Crosby to describe the enormous network of communication, migration, trade, disease, and the transfer of plants and animals, all generates by European colonial empires in the Americas

Question 2

Explain The Great Dying

Answer 2

Europeans brought many diseases (mainly small pox) from the Old world and killed 90 percent of Native American population (60-80 mil). This caaued a demographic collapse

Question 3

Explain the Little Ice Age

Answer 3

the period from the 13th century to the 19th of cool temperatures that spaned the Northern Hemisphere so china, Europe, and north America experienced record cold winters. This created labor shortages and made room for immigrants

Question 4

Local people of Africa and Americas with the columbian exchange

Answer 4

social disruption, slavery, disease, death and Europe was the biggest winner

Question 5

Items going into the New World (N and S America)

Answer 5

Animals: horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, rats Plants: wheat, rice, weeds, sugar cane, Diseases: small pox, chicken pos, alcoholism, malaria

Question 6

Items brought into Old World

Answer 6

Corn, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, chocolate, syphilis