Columbian Exchange

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Flashcards covering key vocabulary and topics from the Columbian Exchange study guide.

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Columbian Exchange

The transfer of crops, diseases, populations, and goods between the Old World and the New World following European contact.

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Karen Ordahl Kupperman

The historian referenced regarding specific infectious diseases that acted as potential destroyers of entire Native villages.

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Native Population Mortality Rate

The percentage of the Native population that experts estimate died after one century of contact with Europeans.

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Psychological Crisis of Native Populations

The mental and social trauma experienced by Native peoples alongside the physical crisis caused by widespread disease outbreaks.