The Columbian Exchange
1) Before 1492 what could we not talk about?
A World History
2) What had Native Americans never seen before Europeans came to the
Americas?
A horse.
3) What are the four categories John Green breaks the Columbian Exchange
into?
- Diseases
- Animals
- Plants
- People
4) What types of diseases were exchanged?
- Smallpox
- Measles
- Mumps
- Chicken Pox
- Typhus
5) How did the diseases affect people?
The death’s of tribal rulers lead to wars, violent successions, captures, brutality,
Incas empire loss, Aztecs loss, small states of the Aztecs went to war, and starvation
= weak immune system.
6) What product did the new world have for the old world that was pretty
destructive?
Tobacco
7) What imported animals to the Americas were revolutionary?
- Pigs
- Cows
- Horses