UGA History Exemption Practice Test

The exchange between the Old and New Worlds involved moving living things and ideas across the Atlantic, not just goods. It encompassed plants, animals, diseases, and technologies or agricultural practices that spread as people and crops moved between continents. This is why the correct choice lists plants, animals, diseases, and technologies—the broad categories that show how ecosystems, diets, and daily life transformed on both sides of the ocean.

Spices and textiles were part of global trade networks but don’t capture the distinctive reach of the Columbian Exchange. Gold and silver reflect economic flows tied to conquest and mining, not the full range of transfer between worlds. Religious texts aren’t a defining category of this exchange.