| Question |
Answer |
| Who is a merchant? | A person who buys and sells goods for a living. |
| What is bartering? | To exchange goods without using money. |
| What does trade mean? | To exchange things of value. |
| What two things are exchanged when people exchange? | goods and ideas |
| What is an empire? | A large area which different groups of people are controlled by a ruler or government. |
| What did Marco Polo accomplish? | This person made other Europeans want to trade with China. |
| What group of people conquered most of Asia to make Marco's travel's possible? | The Mongolians. |
| What is navigation? | The science of plotting and controlling the course of a ship. |
| What is the Columbian Exchange? | The transfer of people, plants , and animals across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus' first trip to the americans. |
| What are germs? | Very tiny, simple living things that often cause diseases. |
| What is immunity? | having resistance to a disease. |
| What are diseases? | illness, condition to which a bodily system does not work properly. |
| What is an epidemic? | the spread of a disease amoung many people. |
| What is a plantation? | A large farm that often grows one cash crop. |
| What is slavery? | A cruel system in which people worked without pay and freedom. |
| What does circumnavigate mean? | to sail around the world. |
| What is the meaning of conquistadors? | Spanish word for conqueror. |
| What does enslaved mean? | To force people against their will. |
| To Europe from New World: FOOD | corn tamotoes patatoes sweet patatoes pinapple |
| To Europe from New World: ANIMALS | muskrats squirrels Turkey |
| To New World from Europe: FOOD | Wheat Sugar Rice Melons Oranges |
| To New World from Europe: ANIMALS | horses sheep cattle pigs goats |
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