AP World History Chapter 14 Questions and Answers Rated A

The Great Dying The explorers and conquistadors from the New World brought diseases with them that the Native Americans had no immunity to. Perhaps as many as 60 to 80 million Native Americans died from these diseases./This mass dying caused the social breakdown of Native American societies. Smallpox One of the diseases that destroyed the Native American population./Small pox contributed greatly to the defeat of the Aztecs. The Columbian Exchange This term has come to represent the mass exchange of peoples, trade, disease, plants and animals that was the result of European colonial empires settling the Americas./This was the first time in history that there was widespread interaction across the Atlantic, connecting the four continents. Potatoes New World crops such as the potato spread to the Old World./These new crops provided enough new nutrition to cause immense population growth increasing the population of Europe from 60 million to 390 million in 500 years.