The Columbian Exchange {Study Guide}
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1. What is the Columbian Exchange? _________________________________________________
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2. What do we now call the Old World and the New World?
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3. The Columbian Exchange had ____________________ and ____________________ effects.
4. What items came from the New World? ___________________________________________
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5. How did corn and sweet potatoes affect Europe?
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6. What items came from the Old World? ____________________________________________
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7. How did the introduction of horses affect the Americas?
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8. What were some of the negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?
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9. What kinds of diseases were carried to the New World?
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10. What is the moral disease that was a product of the Columbian Exchange?
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The Columbian Exchange {Study Guide}
Name _______________________________________ # ______
Date _____/_____/______
Comprehension - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Use your guided notes to fill in the blanks or answer the questions.
1. What is the Columbian Exchange? Movement of plants, animals, diseases, people,
technology, and ideas between the New World and Old World
2. What do we now call the Old World and the New World? Old World = Europe New
World = North America and South America
3. The Columbian Exchange had positive and negative effects.
4. What items came from the New World? Squash, tomatoes, corn, potatoes, and
peanuts
5. How did corn and sweet potatoes affect Europe? It improved their diets.
6. What items came from the Old World? Coffee, cows, pigs, rice, wheat, horses,
chickens, alphabet
7. How did the introduction of horses affect the Americas? Helped Plains Native
Americans move and hunt. They were more effective in hunting buffalo
8. What were some of the negative effects of the Columbian Exchange?
Diseases killed many Native Americans
9. What kinds of diseases were carried to the New World?
Diphtheria, measles, smallpox, malaria
10. What is the moral disease that was a product of the Columbian Exchange?
Slavery = Native Americans died then the African Slave numbers increased