| 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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