1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

INTRODUCTION-PART 1

Reading Check

1. By what name was Christopher Columbus known at the time of his historical exploratory voyage?

2. What invertebrate species did John Rolfe introduce into North America?

2. What plant species did John Rolfe bring from the Caribbean to mainland North America?

3. What disease acquired the nickname “Yellow Jack”?

4. What disease played a role in the decision to enslave African people and import them to North America?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What does Mann use the Faro a Colón and the statue of Miguel López de Legazpi and Andrés Ochoa de Urdaneta y Cerain to represent?

2. What thesis of Mann’s is represented by the term “Homogenocene”?

3. What common misrepresentation of Indigenous society and the North American landscape does Mann try to correct?

4. How did John Smith’s return to England to seek medical treatment inadvertently lead to starvation among the European colonists in the Virginia Company’s colony?

5. What two forces contributed to the loss of indentured servants in Carolina and Virginia?

Paired Resource

“European Colonizers Killed So Many Indigenous Americans That the Planet Cooled Down, a Group of Researchers Concluded”