What was the Columbian Exchange? How did it change the Americas? How did it change the rest of the world?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of people, animals, plants, and diseases that took place after European contact with the Americas.
2. The term emphasizes the two-way nature of the flow.
3. Europeans brought domesticated animals, new crops, and deadly diseases to the Americas.
4. A host of important New World crops were taken to Europe, Africa, and Asia.
5. The exchange had a profound impact on global populations, changing the planet and its inhabitants forever.
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a. The Philippines. b. The Azores. c. Indonesia. d. Polynesia.
The Table of Ranks, published by Peter the Great in 1722, was ________
A. a table that equated a person's social position with his rank in the bureaucracy or the military B. a table that equated a person's social position with his lineage among the traditional landed nobility C. a table that equated a person's social position with his annual income D. Russia's first income tax E. an outline of Peter's estimation of the relative power of European nations
Slaves resisted in numerous ways: slow work, sabotage of equipment, running away, and slave revolts.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The "three P's" that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are
a. poverty, political radicalism, and protest against authority. b. public schools, parietal rules, and parental restrictions. c. population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity. d. patriotism, prowar enthusiasm, and perfectionism. e. the "pill," pot, and popular rock music.