Unit I Test

Example:

Work, Exchange, Technology

HOW DID THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE - the mutual transfer of material goods, commodities, animals, and diseases - affect interaction between Europeans and natives and among indigenous peoples in North America?

When the Columbian Exchange started, Europeans brought back to the Old World maize and potatoes.  This greatly increased their food source, and eventually helped increase their populations; in return, the Europeans (particularly the Spanish) brought livestock such as pigs and horses.  The horse changed the Plains Indians lifestyle as quickly adapted to the horse and used it to hunt Buffalo. Further, the Europeans brought with them diseases such as smallpox that helped disable Native populations - with up to 90% dying from contact with these diseases - and made them more vulnerable to European conquest.

GRADING:

If you lacked specifics for a question (like the idea that the potato helped increase the European population or that disease helped aid European conquest) you received 15/20.  If you had some specific or were close on the specifics you received 17 or 18.  If your answer was vague you received 12/20.