The Columbian Exchange

Question 1

How did the Spanish most exploit the Indigenous peoples of the Americas?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

by enslaving them and forced them to work in mines and on plantations

Question 2

Why did diseases spread so rapidly in the Americas after European explorers arrived?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The diseases were highly contagious.

Question 3

Which animals were Europeans introduced to during the Columbian Exchange?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

llamas

Question 4

How did European diseases affect the Americas?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

European diseases killed many people.

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the effect that the European practice of slavery had on the Americas?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

a lasting impact of more than 350 years

Question 6

Diseases brought by explorers

Revolt · Accepted Answer

wiped out entire cultures.

Question 7

How did many Indigenous peoples treat the land and nature?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They used resources carefully and revered nature.

Question 8

Why did diseases from Africa affect people in the Americas in the early 1500s?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Disease spread when people in the Americas went to Africa to capture and enslave people.

Question 9

Why did European colonists want to convert Indigenous peoples to Christianity?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

They believed it would make it easier to establish a colonial society.

Question 10

What types of goods did Europeans ship to Africa and the Americas on Triangular Trade routes?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

clothing and tools

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