Test: AP US History

In 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (published in 2011), the historian Charles H. Mann describes the effects of the Columbian exchange: the unwitting transfer of plants, animals, and microbes between the New World and the Old which transformed life on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Mann, among the living things exchanged were tomatoes, potatoes, sugarcane, horses, corn, smallpox, measles, cacao, vanilla, tobacco, rice, onions, and bananas.

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Which of the following statements best describes the goals of Europeans traveling to the New World in the 1400s and 1500s?

establishing new settlements for European prisoners

expanding knowledge by discovering new territories

finding new sources of wealth and spreading Christianity

escaping religious persecution

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