Columbian Exchange Practice Test

In a West African coastal city, elites profit by trading captives to European merchants for textiles, guns, and alcohol; warfare and raids increase inland. Which Atlantic-era development is most directly connected to this Columbian Exchange context?

The Columbian Exchange involved not only crops and diseases but also the forced movement of people. As Indigenous populations declined and plantation economies expanded, European colonists increasingly relied on enslaved Africans transported across the Atlantic. Over time, African cultural practices influenced language, religion, music, and foodways in the Americas, producing new syncretic cultures. Which statement best characterizes the relationship between the Columbian Exchange and cultural change in the Atlantic world?