Introduction to Native American History and the Columbian Exchange

Flashcards covering key ideas from the introduction notes about Native Americans in the Americas and the Columbian Exchange.

Europeans called The Americas the , but for Native Americans it was anything but.

The New World

What is the Columbian Exchange?

The transfer of people, animals, plants, and microbes between the Old World and the New World after European contact.

How long have humans lived in The Americas according to the notes?

Over ten thousand years

Native Americans built settled communities and followed migration patterns.

seasonal

Native American social bonds were knit together by ties.

Kinship

The Columbian Exchange bridged more than years of geographic separation.

ten thousand

Name two consequences of the Columbian Exchange mentioned in the notes.

Centuries of violence and the spread of devastating diseases; it revolutionized world history.