Topic 4.3 - Colombian Exchange

Question 1

Columbian Exchange

Answer 1

The transfer of ideas, biological life, and culture as a result of Europeans colonizing after Columbus’s journey.

Question 2

Conquistadores

Answer 2

Spanish colonizers of the Americas. They took over existing Empires such as the Mayas and Aztecs.

Question 3

Smallpox

Answer 3

A European disease that wiped out most of the native population.

Question 4

Maize

Answer 4

Corn, a crop that originated in the americas.

Question 5

Cacao

Answer 5

Large beans cultivated by the Mayans, which were the source of chocolate. The beans were also used as currency.

Question 6

Sugarcane

Answer 6

A plant in which sugar is made.

Question 7

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 7

A slave trade from Africa to the Americas, facilitated mostly by the Europeans.

Question 8

Engenho

Answer 8

Brazilian sugar mills, it symbolized the sugar industry.

Question 9

Cash crop

Answer 9

A crop that is made specifically to sell, not used for farmer consumption.

Question 10

African Diaspora

Answer 10

Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic through the slave trade.

Question 11

Creole language

Answer 11

A language that forms from a simplified version of another language, or the mix of two or more languages.

Question 12

Gumbo

Answer 12

A stew was brought to the Americas by African slaves.