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Which items originated in the Americas and became European staples as a result of the Columbian Exchange?

corn, chocolate, rice, and sugar

rice, cattle, tomatoes, gold

wheat, chocolate, pineapples, potatoes

corn, potatoes, chocolate, tomatoes

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What caused Europe’s population to increase, to provoke its interest in trade, and provided its population with large amounts of gold and silver?

the Commercial Revolution

the Columbian Exchange

the Triangular Trade

the mercantilism economy

What happened to Indigenous peoples in the Americas after 1492?

They began growing tea and coffee.

Most perished from disease.

Their population decreased by nearly twenty percent.

They began selling horses for gold.

Which answer best describes the effects of the slave trade on the African people?

The population declined as a result of forceful removal from the continent and being killed in war.

The slave trade led to raids by Europeans to capture African people and transport them to the New World.

They shifted commercially away from agriculture to the trade of manufactured goods.

Their population declined because few Africans in child-bearing years remained on the continent.

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