Some questions for quiz
1. What is the great world of convergence?
A:
2. What was found by the 1500’s that was unknown to
North America?
A:
3. What was the Columbian exchange?
a. when people used to trade ideas, plants, and animals
b.when people used to play
c. when they only traded one thing
4. What was global convergence?
Well convergence means to come together
5. What was unknown to North America? a. wheat b .beans
c. corn
6. What does convergence mean?
A: a. a coffee
b. to be far away
c. to come together
7. How did many people die?
a. because they had a big war
b. during the Columbian exchange they spread some diseases to the people in the Americas.
c. they went hunting and a bear probably ate some people
Notes:
*1492, 2 major empires in the Americas, the Aztecs and the
Inca ruled many people.

*During this period Zhen He made 7 voyages around the
Indian Ocean.
*During these era’s everyone pitched in ideas and the world grew closer and now the world is what we call today.
*Exchanges during big era 5 still continue through big era 6.
*Many people died DURING THE BIG ERA 6 BECAUSE OF
SMALLPOX, and other diseases carried by the conquerors.
* Europe’s population went from 52 million in 1400 to 142 million people.
*During the 1450-1810 many Africans were brought to the
Americas to work
Vocab.
Afroeurasia
The land masses of Africa and Eurasia, together with adjacent islands, as a single spatial entity. The concept of
Afroeurasia is useful in the study of both historical and contemporary social phenomena whose full geographical contexts overlap in one way or other conventionally defined continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe. See also Afro-
Eurasia.
Columbian Exchange
The trans-oceanic transmission of plants, animals, microorganisms, and people that followed the establishment of regular contact between Afroeurasia and the Americas in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Because life forms evolved separately in the Eastern and Western
Hemispheres for millions of years, these transmissions had far-reaching biological, economic, cultural, and social effects on both American and Afroeurasian societies.
Pre-Columbian America
The period of North and South American history before Christopher Columbus initiated sustained intercommunication between the Americas and Afroeurasia; history of the Western Hemisphere up to 1492; sometimes labeled the Pre-
Contact Period.