AP World History Chapter 14 Questions and Answers Rated A

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. silver mines The silver mines of Mexico and Peru provided riches for Spain and enabled Europeans to buy tea, silk and porcelain from the China./These riches led to both commerce across the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and began the process of globalization that characterizes the world today. Mercantilism European view that encouraged exports and the accumulation of precious metals. Colonies were considered advantages because they provided markets for the manufactured goods of the "mother country" and sometimes even provided supplies of precious metals or