FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 4.3

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FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT 4.3

COLUMBIAN EXCH EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -41 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Who first accused the Europeans of intentionally slaughtering the Native Americans?

Answer:

Alfred Crosby 1972 UT Austin argued this, in contrast to prior view that Europeans came over and intentionally slaughtered everyone

Question 2: Who benefited the most nutritionally from American food crops?

Answer:

Populations in Afro-Eurasia benefitted: nutritionally from the increased diversity of American food crops.

Question 3: What crop became wildly popular in the East? How was it raised?

Answer:

tobacco, a western plant, was grown often with slave labor: and shipped to east

Question 4: What African foods enhanced western diets?

Answer:

African foods like okra, rice, bananas, watermelon, black-eyed peas: enhanced western diets

Question 5: What did the spread of disease do to the indigenous peoples of the Americas?

Answer:

Some of these diseases substantially reduced the indigenous populations, with catastrophic effects in many areas. the diffusion of disease from east to west had: devastatingly destructive impact on Native American lives

Question 6: What impact did the turkey have on the east?

Answer:

western animals such as the turkey: did not have as big an impact on the east

Question 7: What was the main reason for the importation of African slaves to the Americas?

Answer:

African slaves were brought in large numbers to the west to: work sugar plantations

Question 8: What made a big impact on western travel, diet and the workplace?

Answer:

eastern large work animals (horses, cattle) were unknown to the west: would make a big difference in western travel, diet, workplace

Question 9: What impact did the East have on the Aztecs?

Answer:

Social: end of human sacrifice by: Aztecs, besides illness and killing.

Question 10: What religion became dominant in the Americas?

Answer:

some form of Roman Catholicism would: become dominant

Question 11: What was exported from the West to the East in HUGE quantities? Hint: it is not edible.

Answer:

Gold and especially silver were exported from: west to east in phenomenal quantities.Question 12: Male or Female were mostly imported? Where were the highest numbers of Africans imported to work as slaves?

Answer:

Africans came primarily to: Brazil and the Caribbean, mostly men brought;

Question 13: Make a map showing the exchange of people, goods, ideas across the globe

Answer:

Be ready to do this.

Question 14: In what capacity did many Europeans first come to the Americas?

Answer:

many Europeans came, some as: temporary indentured servants

Question 15: What foods came from West to East?

Answer:

potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, sweet potatoes, cocoa, corn came from: west to east

Question 16: What foods came from the East to the West?

Answer:

sugar cane, grains, fruits, coffee, melons, onions came from: east to west; various kinds of beans and nuts went both ways

Question 17: What hypothesis can be shortened into GGS?

Answer:

Guns, Germs, and Steel hypothesis: lack of connection in the Americas limited their development

Question 18: What was the opinion of the east about potatoes?

Answer:

Some western foods like potato: were slow to gain acceptance in the east.

Question 19: Explain the causes of the Columbian Exchange and its effects on the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

Answer:

food, diseases, slavery, animals brought to the Americas, exports, Question 20: What impact did the introduction of women from different cultures have on European people?

Answer:

Interplay of ethnic groups produced: a mixture of progeny; mostly European men taking Native American and sometimes African women.

Question 21: What unique item did the east bring to the west?

Answer:

The east: brought iron to the west.

Question 22: What impact did farming have on the environment?

Answer:

The environmental impact was: huge as farming changed landscapes.

Question 23: What percentage of Native Americans died because of exposure to the people from Europe and Asia?

Answer:

populations of Native Americans: is hard to know but estimates say that up to 90% of people may have died

Question 24: How were the cash crops grown?

Answer:

Cash crops were grown primarily on plantations with coerced labor and were exported mostly to Europe and the Middle East.

Question 25: Who introduced beans and nuts?

Answer:

various kinds of beans and nuts went both ways

Question 26: Why were slaves basically dying as workers?

Answer:

tragically worked to death (cheaper to bring more) Question 27: What is the smaller portion of the International Columbian Exchange?

Answer:

The Atlantic triangular trade is the smaller portion of the: international Columbian Exchange.

Question 28: What is syncretism?

Answer:

the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought.