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Crash Course World History: The Columbian Exchange

Define The Columbian Exchange: _____________________________________________

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Positive Effects of the Columbian Exchange Negative Effects of the Columbian Exchange

Did the Columbian Exchange make the world a better or a worse place? (respond in a short paragraph,
citing reasons from above)
 Study Guide UNIT 1: Pre-Columbian America and
Spanish Conquest & Colonization

UNIT VOCAB & KEY CONCEPTS KEY FIGURES

Homo Sapiens King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of

Beringia Spain
The Umayyad Caliphate Christopher Columbus
The Reconquista Hernn Corts
La Malinche
The Spanish Inquisition
Moctezuma II
Caravel Pedro di Alvarado
Cape Verde Islands and Guinea Francisco Pizarro
(Portuguese Colonies) Atahualpa
Treaty of Tordesillas
Primogeniture
God, Gold, and Glory TIMELINE
Aztec
711: Umayyad Caliphate invades Spain
Tenochtitlan 1479: Spanish Inquisition Founded
Maya 1492: Reconquista completed;
Inca Columbuss First Voyage
Feudalism 1521: Corts burns Tenochtitlan
Encomienda 1532: Pizarro captures Atahualpa
Mercantilism
The Columbian Exchange
Review Questions:

1. Who were the first Americans and how c.

did they get here?
5. Whats the difference between Feudalism
and the Encomienda System?
2. EFFECTS of the Reconquista:
a. Feudalism:
a.
b. Encomienda:
b.
6. Mercantilism is all about acquiring
c.
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3. CAUSES of Exploration:
7. According to mercantilism, the whole
a. point of a colony is to:

b.

c.
4. What motivated Christopher Columbuss
brutality toward the Tano people?
a.
b.