FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Question
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Serfs from Russia
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Enslaved people from West African
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Peasants from China
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The labor sources they drew from to fill this demand included European indentured servants and convicts, free and enslaved indigenous people in the Americas, and enslaved Africans purchased through the developing trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slave traders violently captured Africans and loaded them onto slave ships, where for months these individuals endured the “Middle Passage”-the crossing of the Atlantic from Africa to the North American colonies or West Indies. Many Africans did not survive the journey.
Detailed explanation-3: -They tried to recruit native Americans, but many died from diseases brought by Europeans, such as smallpox, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. And the Indians who survived wanted no part of the work, often fleeing to the countryside they knew so well.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples’ lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle. They also carried diseases against which the Indian peoples had no defenses.