When Christopher Columbus came to the Americas, he introduced new foods, animals, and diseases to the Native Americans. The exchange, both the good and the bad, are part of what is called the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of plants, animals, human populations, diseases, cultures, and ideas throughout the world.
The new worlds that had been discovered were a part of this Columbian Exchange, and were exposed to many new and foreign goods as well as people.
The Americas, or New World, were faced with harsh treatment from Columbus and his crew, along with the rampant spread of new diseases that took a large toll on the Native populations. The Indies were also. The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of plants,tobacco,food,disease and so much more. During the Columbian Exchange there was an exchange of many types of foods.
The Old World exchanged Bananas. The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of plants, animals, human populations, diseases, cultures, and ideas throughout the world. The Indies were also subject to these same. The trade between benefitted both worlds, but also brought on negative effects. There were multiple causes and effects for the age of exploration. The need for wealth, to advance their society, and to expand power drove the age of exploration.
As positive results, the Colombian Exchange, economic prosperity and new inventions. As negative results, slave trade entered the fray, wars over land between empires began, and the people of the New World were. The Columbian exchange was the transfer of plants, animals, ideas and more between the Americas and the old world during the 15th and 16th century. This essay will first talk about the slavery that happened during the Columbian exchange. Conquest and forced labor caused the native population to significantly decline.
The price of goods was so high and was so worthless that it cost Southerners in some places several hundred Confederate dollars to buy a single loaf. Many slaves in the South effectively freed themselves by refusing to work and flocking to Union lines in droves. The North meanwhile was in many ways better off in than it had been before the war, for the economy had experienced an enormous boom during the war years and had set the industrial machine into high gear.
The worst infectious disease which annihilated almost all of the Native American people was Small Pox. Small Pox was an Old World disease which was very contagious, disfiguring, and often deadly. So, when the old world people entered Americas, they bought their plants, animals and diseases which they already had exposure to, leading to their population growth, in contrast to Americas where the population declined due to lack to exposure to Old World life. In conclusion, the Columbian exchange changed the way of life of people in both the Worlds.
In the fifteenth century, Spain had the indication of traveling to the New World, which consisted of present-day South America along into parts of North America.
Along the way each explorer encountered different experiences with the indigenous people including their values and beliefs. Positive effects of the Columbian Exchange was that it gave Europe and America new resources which in turn expanded their knowledge. The got new foods, animals, and materials they wouldn't otherwise have. The bad thing about the Columbian Exchange was that it spread disease between Europe and.
The components of the exchange include animals, diseases, and plants; the exchange caused both positive and negative effects on the Old World and the New World.
The Old World introduced wheat, rice, apples, horses, cattle, sheep, killing and driving off the animals, syphilis, and smallpox to the New World and impacted civilization greatly.
The positive effects for the Old World include new technology, new crops and animals that helped in everyday life, raised nourishment standards and people were living longer lives. The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New World began soon after Columbus returned to Spain from the Americas. These changes had multiple effects, that were both positive and negative.
Although the Columbian Exchange had numerous benefits and drawbacks but the drawbacks outweighs the benefits. In terms of benefits the Columbian Exchange only positively affected the lives of the Europeans.
Diseases were a huge negative impact. Diseases such as small pox and syphyllis were brought to the Americas by the Europeans and wiped out a large amount of the New World's population. While slavery had a bit of a positive light, it was mostly a negative thing.
Slaves from Africa were brought by boat some didn't even survive the trip to the Americas by the Spanish and the British to grow cash crops. Many Africans were taken from their homelands and forced to work for little or no pay for years.
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