America Before Columbus Part 2 – Flashcards
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How many million people lived in the Americas in 1491?
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100
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How are the cultures and people of the Americas different than Europe?
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Europe had more advanced technology
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Why could one call the Spanish arrival a 'stampede'?
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The Spanish were unwanted and killed tons
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What does the narrator say is a 'perfect source of food'?
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Pigs
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How are pigs a staple food source?
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They take care of themselves and eat everything
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Why are pigs a curse?
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They eat the Native American's crops
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Who was the hidden passenger on board European ships and what were the consequences?
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Small Pox that killed thousands
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What did Europeans attribute the disease and death of native Americans
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God
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What was the impact of native American deaths?
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America turned back to wilderness
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How many years did it take for the Europeans to have a "garden of Eden without humans"?
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50
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What is the evidence of God's 2nd creation that Europeans send back home?
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Plants and animals, corn, chili peppers, tomatoes
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What is the unwelcomed passenger and unintentional gift with deadly consequences in Europe?
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The French Pox (Syphilis)
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Who is the new "superpower of Europe"?
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England
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There was no gold in the rivers, but what did Europeans find there that amazed them?
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Lots of resources that they lacked in Europe
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How long does it take for European settlements to create 'overfishing'?
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200 years
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Why were American trees "doomed'?
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They were expected to support Europe's lack of trees
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Other than the man's head who is chopping down a tress, what other areas of the Americas are 'completely bald'?
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The Caribbean Islands
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Europeans create the new world in the image of _________.
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The one they left
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What new items do Europeans bring to the new world?
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Domesticated animals and plants
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What less welcome guests do the Europeans bring with them in their bags of seeds?
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Weed seeds
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How do these new items impact the Americas?
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Bison leave, domesticated animals replace them
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What is the Colombian Exchange and it's impact on the world?
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The bringing of things to America
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What impact does the potato have and why does it thrive in Europe?
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Potatoes survive the hardships that other plants don't
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Only one animal ends up in Europe, what is it?
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The turkey
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Why did Colombian exchange impact European environment so much less than the reverse?
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More people per square inch in Europe than in America
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What made the creation of the 'new world' possible?
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Tobacco and slave labor
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What is the 'accident of ecology'?
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Microbes and things gave the Europeans an advantage
