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1
Q

What are 5 facets that emerged as a result of the Columbian exchange?

A
animals
people
metals
disease
crops
2
Q

2 things about animals

A

domesticated animals such as goats, sheep, and pigs invaded native American cornfields
Indians began hunting for Buffalo on horseback

3
Q

Plain Indians

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highly mobile, nomadic hunter society

4
Q

2 ways in which horses were used

A

to gain control over neighbors and eventually dominate western territory

5
Q

Disease

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reduced the population by 90%

smallpox was the number one killer

6
Q

Jamsetown

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the first permanent English colony established in 1607, saved by tobacco

7
Q

what did farming do

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crops such as corn and potatoes increased the population

8
Q

Sugar from the East Indies led to what

A

slavery in the new world

9
Q

what emerged in the 16th century amongst people?

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a caste system: an intermixing between Indians, Spanish and africans

10
Q

Creoles and Peninsulares

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people of Spanish and Portuguese original, the elite

made up 1-2% of the population

11
Q

What led to the decline of Spain as a world power?

A

The new world had an abundance of gold and silver which the Spanish spent on wars regarding religion